Manage installed applications

Since Pear v3, applications are installed with pear install directly into your operating system's application folder, and each app keeps its peer-to-peer data in a local corestore (described in Storage and distribution). This guide covers finding what's installed and resetting an app's storage.

Find installed applications

pear install pear://<key> places apps in the standard OS location:

• macOS — apps in /Applications, binaries in /usr/local/bin
• Linux — apps in ~/Applications, ~/AppImages, or ~/.local/bin; binaries in ~/.local/bin

Browse that folder to see what's installed, the same as any native application. To inspect a specific application, pass its link to pear info:

pear info pear://<application-link>

Run pear info with no argument to view Pear platform information instead.

Reset an application's storage

There is no pear uninstall—remove the app from your OS application folder to uninstall it. To wipe an application's local peer-to-peer storage (its corestore) without touching the copy on the swarm, use pear gc cores with the app link:

pear gc cores pear://<application-link>

This clears the corestore cores tied to your local copy. Anything stored only locally (chat history, drafts, user-generated content) is gone afterwards. Use it when you want a clean slate for testing or to recover from a corrupt drive.

The application binary itself stays available on the swarm; only the local storage is cleared. Re-running the application against the same link rebuilds an empty storage.