How to remove elasticsearch and reinstall to reset cluster

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I want to remove es on ec2 instance and reinstall it to initialize cluster and node info How can I?
I tried but it always had same cluster uuid even I uninstalled it

First I installed es following these steps

sudo rpm --import https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch


sudo nano /etc/yum.repos.d/elasticsearch.repo


[elasticsearch]
name=Elasticsearch repository for 8.x packages
baseurl=https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/8.x/yum
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch
enabled=0
autorefresh=1
type=rpm-md


sudo yum install --enablerepo=elasticsearch elasticsearch

after starting node I got single-node cluster
Then I uninstall es with sudo yum remove elasticsearch command

I installed es again following exactly same steps but It had same cluster uuid

I removed not only /var/lib/elasticsearch/nodes but also all the files and directories related to es but none of them worked
there is no way to completely remove and reinstall es on ec2 instance?

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If you remove /var/lib/elasticsearch then it should work.

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