Wanting multiple/virtual desktops, I downloaded Desktop Manager for the Mac. It turns out to be too buggy. Can anyone provide me step by step instructions to uninstall it?

So far I have done the following:

  1. Find the process with ps -ax;
  2. Kill the process with kill -9 pid
  3. Removed the application with rm -rf applicationName.

However, the application is not being removed. Will someone please help? Here is the output I get after step 3 above.

rm: DesktopManager 0.5.4r1//Desktop Manager.app/Contents/Resources/PreferencePanes/DesktopNamesPrefs.bundle/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/DesktopNamesPrefs.nib: Read-only file system
rm: DesktopManager 0.5.4r1//Desktop Manager.app/Contents/Resources/PreferencePanes/DesktopNamesPrefs.bundle/Contents/Resources/English.lproj: Read-only file system
rm: DesktopManager 0.5.4r1//Desktop Manager.app/Contents/Resources/PreferencePanes/DesktopNamesPrefs.bundle/Contents/Resources/Spanish.lproj/DesktopNamesPrefs.nib/classes.nib: Read-only file system
rm: DesktopManager 0.5.4r1//Desktop Manager.app/Contents/Resources/PreferencePanes/DesktopNamesPrefs.bundle/Contents/Resources/Spanish.lproj/DesktopNamesPrefs.nib/info.nib: Read-only file system
rm: DesktopManager 0.5.4r1//Desktop Manager.app/Contents/Resources/PreferencePanes/DesktopNamesPrefs.bundle/Contents/Resources/Spanish.lproj/DesktopNamesPrefs.nib/keyedobjects.nib: Read-only file system
rm: DesktopManager 0.5.4r1//Desktop Manager.app/Contents/Resources/PreferencePanes/DesktopNamesPrefs.bundle/Contents/Resources/Spanish.lproj/DesktopNamesPrefs.nib/minus.tiff: Read-only file system
rm: DesktopManager 0.5.4r1//Desktop Manager.app/Contents/Resources/PreferencePanes/DesktopNamesPrefs.bundle/Contents/Resources/Spanish.lproj/DesktopNamesPrefs.nib/plus.tiff: Read-only file system
rm: DesktopManager 0.5.4r1//Desktop Manager.app/Contents/Resources/PreferencePanes/DesktopNamesPrefs.bundle/Contents/Resources/Spanish.lproj/DesktopNamesPrefs.nib: Read-only file system
rm: DesktopManager 0.5.4r1//Desktop Manager.app/Contents/Resources/PreferencePanes/DesktopNamesPrefs.bundle/Contents/Resources/Spanish.lproj: Read-only file system
rm: DesktopManager 0.5.4r1//Desktop Manager.app/Contents/Resources/PreferencePanes/DesktopNamesPrefs.bundle/Contents/Resources: Read-only file system
rm: DesktopManager 0.5.4r1//Desktop Manager.app/Contents/Resources/PreferencePanes/DesktopNamesPrefs.bundle/Contents: Read-only file system
rm: DesktopManager 0.5.4r1//Desktop Manager.app/Contents/Resources/PreferencePanes/DesktopNamesPrefs.bundle: Read-only file system
rm: DesktopManager 0.5.4r1//Desktop Manager.app/Contents/Resources/PreferencePanes/HotKeysPreferences.bundle/Contents/Info.plist: Read-only file system
rm: DesktopManager 0.5.4r1//Desktop Manager.app/Contents/Resources/PreferencePanes/HotKeysPreferences.bundle/Contents/MacOS/HotKeysPreferences: Read-only file system
rm: DesktopManager 0.5.4r1//Desktop Manager.app/Contents/Resources/PreferencePanes/HotKeysPreferences.bundle/Contents/MacOS: Read-only file system
rm: DesktopManager 0.5.4r1//Desktop Manager.app/Contents/Resources/PreferencePanes/HotKeysPreferences.bundle/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/HotKeysPrefs.nib/classes.nib: Read-only file system
rm: DesktopManager 0.5.4r1//Desktop Manager.app/Contents/Resources/PreferencePanes/HotKeysPreferences.bundle/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/HotKeysPrefs.nib/info.nib: Read-only file system
rm: DesktopManager 0.5.4r1//Desktop Manager.app/Contents/Resources/PreferencePanes/HotKeysPreferences.bundle/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/HotKeysPrefs.nib/keyedobjects.nib: Read-only file system
rm: DesktopManager 0.5.4r1//Desktop Manager.app/Contents/Resources/PreferencePanes/HotKeysPreferences.bundle/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/HotKeysPrefs.nib: Read-only file system
rm: DesktopManager 0.5.4r1//Desktop Manager.app/Contents/Resources/PreferencePanes/HotKeysPreferences.bundle/Contents/Resources/English.lproj: Read-only file system
rm: DesktopManager 0.5.4r1//Desktop Manager.app/Contents/Resources/PreferencePanes/HotKeysPreferences.bundle/Contents/Resources/hotkeys.png: Read-only file system
rm: DesktopManager 0.5.4r1//Desktop Manager.app/Contents/Resources/PreferencePanes/HotKeysPreferences.bundle/Contents/Resources/Spanish.lproj/HotKeysPrefs.nib/classes.nib: Read-only file system
rm: DesktopManager 0.5.4r1//Desktop Manager.app/Contents/Resources/PreferencePanes/HotKeysPreferences.bundle/Contents/Resources/Spanish.lproj/HotKeysPrefs.nib/info.nib: Read-only file system
rm: DesktopManager 0.5.4r1//Desktop Manager.app/Contents/Resources/PreferencePanes/HotKeysPreferences.bundle/Contents/Resources/Spanish.lproj/HotKeysPrefs.nib/keyedobjects.nib: Read-only file system
rm: DesktopManager 0.5.4r1//Desktop Manager.app/Contents/Resources/PreferencePanes/HotKeysPreferences.bundle/Contents/Resources/Spanish.lproj/HotKeysPrefs.nib: Read-only file system
rm: DesktopManager 0.5.4r1//Desktop Manager.app/Contents/Resources/PreferencePanes/HotKeysPreferences.bundle/Contents/Resources/Spanish.lproj: Read-only file system
rm: DesktopManager 0.5.4r1//Desktop Manager.app/Contents/Resources/PreferencePanes/HotKeysPreferences.bundle/Contents/Resources: Read-only file system
rm: DesktopManager 0.5.4r1//Desktop Manager.app/Contents/Resources/PreferencePanes/HotKeysPreferences.bundle/Contents: Read-only file system
rm: DesktopManager 0.5.4r1//Desktop Manager.app/Contents/Resources/PreferencePanes/HotKeysPreferences.bundle: Read-only file system
rm: DesktopManager 0.5.4r1//Desktop Manager.app/Contents/Resources/PreferencePanes: Read-only file system
rm: DesktopManager 0.5.4r1//Desktop Manager.app/Contents/Resources/screenicon.png: Read-only file system
rm: DesktopManager 0.5.4r1//Desktop Manager.app/Contents/Resources/Spanish.lproj/Localizable.strings: Read-only file system
rm: DesktopManager 0.5.4r1//Desktop Manager.app/Contents/Resources/Spanish.lproj/MainWindow.nib/classes.nib: Read-only file system
rm: DesktopManager 0.5.4r1//Desktop Manager.app/Contents/Resources/Spanish.lproj/MainWindow.nib/info.nib: Read-only file system
rm: DesktopManager 0.5.4r1//Desktop Manager.app/Contents/Resources/Spanish.lproj/MainWindow.nib/keyedobjects.nib: Read-only file system
rm: DesktopManager 0.5.4r1//Desktop Manager.app/Contents/Resources/Spanish.lproj/MainWindow.nib: Read-only file system
rm: DesktopManager 0.5.4r1//Desktop Manager.app/Contents/Resources/Spanish.lproj: Read-only file system
rm: DesktopManager 0.5.4r1//Desktop Manager.app/Contents/Resources/WorkspaceManagerIcon.icns: Read-only file system
rm: DesktopManager 0.5.4r1//Desktop Manager.app/Contents/Resources: Read-only file system
rm: DesktopManager 0.5.4r1//Desktop Manager.app/Contents: Read-only file system
rm: DesktopManager 0.5.4r1//Desktop Manager.app: Read-only file system
rm: DesktopManager 0.5.4r1/: Resource busy
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You should simply find the application within your application folder, then right click and delete, as most Mac apps are all packaged within itself this should remove move it all?

Also using the terminal, change the directory to your applications directory:

    cd /applications

Once the directory os chnaged to your applications delete the selected app.

    rm -fR myappname.app

This should then remvoe the application.

When using terminal please ensure you understand what you are doing

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Thanks for replying. I have already done everything you mentioned. The problem is the application is not visible in the /applications directory. I even tried ls -la in the terminal to see if the name showed up: nothing. Perhaps someone has installed and uninstalled Desktop Manager and can share their experience with me. – tribal Sep 3 '11 at 23:44
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