# How to uninstall old metric beat version in linux
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-uninstall-old-metric-beat-version-in-linux/129317
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** metricbeat
**Created:** [April 24, 2018, 1:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-uninstall-old-metric-beat-version-in-linux/129317 "2018-04-24T13:40:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@kolli\_dilip](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kolli_dilip)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2018, 1:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-uninstall-old-metric-beat-version-in-linux/129317/1 "2018-04-24T13:40:01Z")
Hi team
I was using metric beat 5, and want to upgrade to metric beat 6, so how to uninstall the old version
os: linux
Thanks in advance
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### Author:  [@adrisr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/adrisr)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2018, 2:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-uninstall-old-metric-beat-version-in-linux/129317/2 "2018-04-24T14:12:12Z")
It really depends on how did you install metricbeat in the first place. Did you use your distribution package manager? Which distribution is it by the way?
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### Author:  [@kolli\_dilip](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kolli_dilip)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2018, 2:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-uninstall-old-metric-beat-version-in-linux/129317/3 "2018-04-24T14:26:22Z")
metricbeat-5.5.2-x86\_64.rpm is the package
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### Author:  [@adrisr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/adrisr)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2018, 3:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-uninstall-old-metric-beat-version-in-linux/129317/4 "2018-04-24T15:21:48Z")
You can upgrade directly without uninstalling the package:
```auto
rpm --upgrade filebeat-6.2.4-x86_64.rpm
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2018, 3:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-uninstall-old-metric-beat-version-in-linux/129317/5 "2018-05-22T15:21:52Z")
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