# Uninstalling Houdini

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/uninstalling-houdini/31325>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** windows\
**Created:** [September 20, 2019, 5:42pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/uninstalling-houdini/31325 "2019-09-20T17:42:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bryce\_Gattis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a87d85/32.png) [@Bryce\_Gattis](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Bryce_Gattis)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2019, 5:42pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/uninstalling-houdini/31325/1 "2019-09-20T17:42:45Z")

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Hi,

I’m trying to uninstall houdini 17.0 with Ansible, I’ve tried the following:

- name: Uninstall Houdini 17.0.416  
hosts: all  
tasks:

- name: uninstall houdini  
win\_command: cmd.exe “C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 17.0.416\Uninstall Houdini.exe /S”

- name: uninstall houdini 2.0  
win\_package:  
path: C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 17.0.416\Uninstall Houdini.exe  
product\_id: Houdini 17.0.416  
arguments: /S  
state: absent

This is the given verbose output:

TASK [uninstall houdini] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*  
changed: [[ws-001.MYDOMAIN.COM](http://ws-001.MYDOMAIN.COM)] =\> {  
“changed”: true,  
“cmd”: “cmd.exe "C:\\Program Files\\Side Effects Software\\Houdini 17.0.416\\Uninstall Houdini.exe /S"”,  
“delta”: “0:00:00.320820”,  
“end”: “2019-09-20 04:22:06.665368”,  
“rc”: 0,  
“start”: “2019-09-20 04:22:06.344548”,  
“stderr”: “”,  
“stderr\_lines”: ,  
“stdout”: “Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.17763.292]\r\n(c) 2018 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.\r\n\r\nC:\Users\admin\>\r\nC:\Users\admin\>”,  
“stdout\_lines”: [  
“Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.17763.292]”,  
“(c) 2018 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.”,  
“”,  
“C:\Users\admin\>”,  
“C:\Users\admin\>”  
]  
}

TASK [uninstall houdini 2.0] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*  
changed: [[ws-001.MYDOMAIN.COM](http://ws-001.MYDOMAIN.COM)] =\> {  
“changed”: true,  
“exit\_code”: 0,  
“rc”: 0,  
“reboot\_required”: false,  
“restart\_required”: false  
}  
META: ran handlers  
META: ran handlers

As you can see, both of these run, and return a zero exit code. However, neither way seems to ACTUALLY uninstall houdini. Has anyone been successful uninstalling houdini with ansible? Or does anyone have any ideas of what may be the issue or how to debug it?  
Im using ansible version 2.7.10

Thanks