# Not able to uninstall/remove LS plugin

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-uninstall-remove-ls-plugin/200592>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [September 22, 2019, 2:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-uninstall-remove-ls-plugin/200592 "2019-09-22T14:46:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![rkhapre](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rkhapre/32/48333_2.png) [@rkhapre](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rkhapre)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2019, 2:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-uninstall-remove-ls-plugin/200592/1 "2019-09-22T14:46:20Z")

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Not able to uninstall/remove LS plugin

This is what i am using

`bin>logstash-plugin.bat remove logstash-filter-csv`

I am using windows package

This issue is mentioned [here](https://github.com/elastic/logstash/issues/10781) as well. But not sure how to fix this in windows package

> ERROR: Operation aborted, cannot remove plugin, message: The path `/bin/logstash-core` does not exist.

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2019, 2:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-uninstall-remove-ls-plugin/200592/2 "2019-09-22T14:52:51Z")

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That is one of the standard plugins. Why do you need to remove it?

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**Author:** ![rkhapre](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rkhapre/32/48333_2.png) [@rkhapre](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rkhapre)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2019, 2:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-uninstall-remove-ls-plugin/200592/3 "2019-09-22T14:54:29Z")

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sorry , just gave as example. i have built a custom plugin, that is also giving same result.  
this problem is same for all the plugins i see this problem in github as well

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**Author:** ![rkhapre](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rkhapre/32/48333_2.png) [@rkhapre](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rkhapre)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2019, 3:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-uninstall-remove-ls-plugin/200592/4 "2019-09-22T15:50:53Z")

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This is more of a case of changing the LS\_HOME, i am not sure which file i need to change LS\_HOME, please help here.

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**Author:** ![rkhapre](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rkhapre/32/48333_2.png) [@rkhapre](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rkhapre)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2019, 8:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-uninstall-remove-ls-plugin/200592/5 "2019-09-23T08:28:04Z")

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Hi all, did anyone faces similar issue ? Not sure in which file we need to change the LS\_HOME to make it effective for windows package.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 8:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-uninstall-remove-ls-plugin/200592/6 "2019-10-21T08:28:14Z")

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