AmpliTube5-Uninstaller

How to use

1. Unauthorize AmpliTube 5 in IK Product Manager
2. Download latest release version of script.zsh from Releases
3. Open terminal and do
   1. xattr -d com.apple.quarantine SCRIPT_PATH : disable quarantine flag on script
   2. chmod +x SCRIPT_PATH : grant execute privilege to script
   3. sudo SCRIPT_PATH : actual run of script

(To fill SCRIPT_PATH, just drag script.zsh from finder to terminal)

Why it needs?

IK provide official uninstaller of course, but it DEFINITELY SUCKS
(You can find in ~/Documents/IK Multimedia/IK Product Manager/AmpliTube 5/AmpliTube_X_Y_Z.dmg)

...let's see some of

• :22,25

  rm -Rf /var/db/receipts/com.ikmultimedia.pkg.HammondB-3X.bom
  rm -Rf /var/db/receipts/com.ikmultimedia.pkg.HammondB-3X.plist 
  
  sudo pkgutil --forget com.ikmultimedia.HammondB-3X
  

  HammondB-3X is virtual organ from IK, why this in 'AmpliTube 5' uninstaller??
  It seems someone just copy and paste from somewhere

• :43

  #rm -f \"/Library/Preferences/com.ikmultimedia.AmpliTube 5.plist\"
  

  pkgutil --forget works same as delete .bom & .plist (read man pkgutil), rm -f is not a safe way to forget package
  What's even worse; this line is annotated so there's no forget of package in whole script

• :52, :57, :62

  rm -Rf /Library/Application\\ Support/IK\\ Multimedia/AmpliTube\\ 5/
  
  sudo rm -Rf ~/Documents/IK\\ Multimedia/AmpliTube\\ 5/
  
  rm -Rf /Library/Documentation/IK\\ Multimedia/AmpliTube\\ 5/
  

  It never touches ~/Library, will leave a bunch of garbages

IK Product Manager checks whether program is installed or not by just
/Library/Application Support/IK Multimedia/<program_name>/ exists, wtf?

This script set 3 targets, delete in order of these guarantee clean removal like Jazz Chorus

TARGET

• TARGET0 : .app itself
  • /Applications
• TARGET1 : where package installer touches
  • pkgutil receipt(.plist, .bom)
  • /Library
  • /Applications (Duplicated with TARGET0)
• TARGET2 : libraries
  • /Library (Duplicated with TARGET1)
  • ~/Library
• TARGET3 : user files (preset, project, etc)
  • ~/Documents

DISCLAIMER

USE AT YOUR OWN RISK

Author(s) of this repo do(es) not have charge on any malfunctions, so backup important files before run this script

Tested on

• macOS Seqouia 15.7.7
• Mac Mini (2018)
• AmpliTube 5 MAX v2, 5.10.9

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How to contribute

These kind of PRs will NOT be accepted

• Break Readability (ex. substituting duplicated snippet to separate function)
  Shell script is always readability first
• Require any network things (ex. curl)
  This script need no other things than itself
• External Dependencies (ex. python from Xcode, packages from brew, ports)
  Must run on stock macOS(BSD) utilies only

Except that, any PR will be appreciated!