[DOCS] Need a process for migrating from a locally-installed Claude installation to one provided by the Debian/Ubuntu Package Manager
Resolved 💬 1 comment Opened May 29, 2026 by ke4ahr Closed Jul 2, 2026
Documentation Type
Missing documentation (feature not documented)
Documentation Location
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Section/Topic
Anywhere this belongs
Current Documentation
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What's Wrong or Missing?
Need a process for migrating from a locally-installed Claude installation (and removing the locally installed Claude binaries and labels, etc.) to one provided by the Debian/Ubuntu Package Manager WITHOUT eliminating ~/.claude and so on. I don't want to scrape out everything and start over, which is what the uninstall search results are returning.
Suggested Improvement
This should be as simple as rm -rf ~/.local/claude/share but I am not familiar with the particulars of the installation or code.
Impact
Low - Minor confusion or inconvenience
Additional Context
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