Uninstalling the vCLI Package on Linux You can use a script included in the installation to uninstall the vCLI package. To uninstall vCLI on Linux 1 Change to the directory where you installed vCLI (default is /usr/bin). 2 Run the vmware-uninstall-vSphere-CLI.pl script. The command uninstalls vCLI and the vSphere SDK for Perl.