How do I uninstall "Eyes on the Solar System"?

Check with the developers, as they are not using the standard method they'll need to tell you.

Open your Applications Folder and drag the program to the Trash.

It apparently installs an Internet Plugin, so go to /Library/Internet Plug-ins and remove the Nasa Eyes plug-in.

Then, empty the Trash.

I didn't find a bundled uninstaller or instructions on uninstalling, so it falls into my ever-growing list of Crapware.

Barney-15E

It's a package installer…

http://eyes.jpl.nasa.gov/download.html

Multiple packages in a flat.pkg.

Do you know how to uninstall it cleanly?

I looked inside the package and it had the app and a plug-in.

It can also be installed by downloading a Zip, then drag and drop.

In the directions for the zip install, it doesn indicate that an update checker doesn't get installed, but I didn't see that in the package or any script to install it somewhere outside the app.

Dang it's just 10.6.8 that has this …

Nevermind, I was just wondering if we have a clean way to remove .pkg based on the bill of materials etc.

I follow a simple rule, unless I know how to remove I do not install. Works like a charm.

It doesn't really "exist" in the Launch Pad, that is just an alias.

Use Spotlight to search for "Nasa's Eyes". When it shows up in the search resutls, cmd-click on it to show you where it is.

I look it up on the vendors site, then I install, or not.

saholz,

There are several versions on the Mac download page. Which one did you install?

http://eyes.jpl.nasa.gov/download.html

The one that Barney-15E downloaded (from the 'click here' link) is the 'alternative version'. It's just a zip file with the application, that could be inside your Downloads folder inside your home folder.

The other one which I downloaded (from the 'Download' button) is a 'package installer' it looks looks a box with with a yellow cube inside.

There are 6 items in the package, but they all seem to be installed into the Application.

I installed it & it appeared in my user folder inside the Applications folder. If you only have the Nasa app in there delete the entire folder (you don't really need 2 apps folders).

I agree with you, it is poor of Apple to not provide uninstall options, specifically for package installers that create receipts of what was installed.

Apple don't keep track of apps that are 'drag installed' so you will need to make sure you drag apps into the Applications folder before you use them, otherwise it's easy to forget where they are.

No, that's not what I downloaded, but what I downloaded wasn't an mpkg. It was a single package that only had an app and a plugin. The individual installer packages you show appear tone bundled inside the Nasa's Eyes app.

I get 'NASA's Eyes.pkg' on 10.6 & 10.9, I'm unclear on what you have downloaded, it appears to be a flat package as far as I can tell.

The items do get installed into the application bundle, including the internet plugin, but it is linked from inside the hidden user ~/Library/Internet Plugins.

saholz, to clean up the 'plugin link' too…

Open the Finder's 'Go' menu whilst holding down the alt key. Select the Library item, open the Internet Plug-ins folder, delete the 'npNASAEyes.plugin'.

NASA appear to be using Apple's recommended install methods (aside from allowing the install destination to be selected), but Apple's tools don't provide uninstall options. 'pkgutil' doesn't even think it is installed.

This is why we have people making AppCleaner, AppZapper, AppTrap, CleanMyMac…