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I would like to uninstall the Karabiner app completely. I tried all the suggestions except the MacOS recovery mode one, from the below link, but none of them worked for me. I wonder if the suggestions are no longer valid now in 2022.

How to delete a locked app, Karabiner?

I get "operation not permitted" for all the terminal commands. I am using administrator account in MacOS Ventura (13.0).

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Ashok Bijoy Debnath
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  • I have the same issue on Ventura. – Ash Zade Nov 07 '22 at 13:01
  • The linked Q&A has had multiple newer answers and updates to existing answers provided. Indeed this Q&A is now getting duplicate answers to those provided on the linked Q&A. I am closing this one in favour of the existing Q&A which has the same solutions as provided here. – grg Jul 05 '23 at 06:24

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The first place to look is the manaul for any application. Karabionier-elements is at https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/docs/manual/

And it has a section Uninstall

Which says

Karabiner-Elements provides built-in uninstaller. Use the uninstaller to remove Karabiner-Elements from your system.

or these commands

bash '/Library/Application Support/org.pqrs/Karabiner-DriverKit-VirtualHIDDevice/scripts/uninstall/deactivate_driver.sh'
sudo '/Library/Application Support/org.pqrs/Karabiner-Elements/uninstall.sh'
mmmmmm
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    OP commented that they are having issues with those terminal commands: " get "operation not permitted" for all the terminal commands."

    I believe it's a Ventura issue as I have the same problem.

     – Ash Zade Nov 07 '22 at 13:01
  • @AshZade The commands that are shown are not the commands I show – mmmmmm Nov 07 '22 at 14:31
  • Ah, sorry about that. I didn't read their commands and assumed they were trying the ones recommended by Karabiner, which you posted. – Ash Zade Nov 07 '22 at 15:37
  • @mmmm: Thanks for the answer. I tried your suggestions before posting the question here, as I did find them in the official docs, but it didn't uninstall completely. The 2 applications 'Karabiner-elements' and 'Karabiner-EventViewer' are still present in Finder/Applications, and their services are also present in System Preferences - Login Items and Input Monitoring. I was able to turn them off but they are still in the list. – Ashok Bijoy Debnath Nov 08 '22 at 09:22
  • @AshZade: Can't say if it's a Ventura issue as they claim to support Ventura OS as well. If you find anything useful, please update this thread if you can. – Ashok Bijoy Debnath Nov 08 '22 at 09:24
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    @AshokBijoyDebnath In that case I would raise that as an issue with the authors – mmmmmm Nov 08 '22 at 09:50
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First you need to enable your terminal to do that operation. Go to System Setting -> App Management -> then toggle the app you are using to enable application to update/delete other applications. After doing that you'll need to restart your terminal.

Come bak to your terminal and run: sudo chflags nouchg,noschg Karabiner-Elements.app.

Finally run sudo rm -rf Karabiner-Elements.app

catra
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Karabiner-Elements is not a good thing. Use these commands to be able to delete it.

sudo chflags nouchg,noschg /Applications/Karabiner-Elements.app

sudo chflags nouchg,noschg /Applications/Karabiner-EventViewer.app
Robert Ameeti
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