Uninstall Scribus Application in Mac OS X – Scribus removal steps from Mac OS X

Want to uninstall Scribus apps? Not able to find a way to uninstall Scribus completely from your Mac Machine? Is your Mac machine giving error after manually uninstalling Scribus application?

Uninstalling Scribus in mac is just a different approach than in Windows OS. Windows OS provides a option to uninstall application or application manufactures provides uninstaller with the application. But in Mac OS X there is nothing like uninstall utility. To uninstall the Scribus you simply need to drag & drop the Scribus application bundles to trash, that's it. STOP this is not the end there is more to properly uninstalling the Scribus from your machine.

Scribus Bundles – The Application Bundle

Drag & Drop leaves the associated files of Scribus application. Normally, it is thought that all the associated files of a application is saved in the one folder but it is not so. Scribus supported files & preference files are saved in other location than the Scribus Package folder. So you need to get all these files deleted manually. Deleting all the left overs of Scribus is not that easy, you need to find all the location where Scribus has saved the files. Some of the location where Scribus would have saved the files are ~/Library/Preferences/[] ~/Library/Application Support/[]

Recommendation You should always use the Award winning tool to Uninstall Scribus completely from your Mac machine.

Using Finder the remove the Scribus Application Bundles & Additional Files

To Manually uninstall Scribus & all associated files

Start the Activity monitor to look for the processes running, if you find the Scribus application process running then quit it, make sure that Scribus processes is not running.
Start finder to look for the Scribus name.
Searching "Scribus" vs "Contents"
Delete all files and folders related to the Scribus app.
A reboot might be necessary to completely remove some apps.