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Deleting Native Apps in Mac OS X

I like to keep my mac laptop with minimal number of apps. El Capitan comes with an additional protection feature that does not let you delete native apps. The solution is to reboot the computer, while the screen is dark hold command+r to enter recovery mode. Once there open a terminal and type “csrutil disable”. Then restart, find the app, change its permissions, and delete; you could also do this by entering the applications folder and typing “rm -rf /Applications/dying.app”. Then go back to recovery mode, open a terminal and type “csrutil enable” to reactivate the feature.