How to uninstall softmaker freeoffice

Question

I downloaded FreeOffice from here. Now I am trying to uninstall it by doing this command:

sudo dpkg -r softmaker-office

And it isn't working.

Answer 1

Since all other answers are outdated and not working, here is the working answer.

First open your terminal and enter

dpkg --get-selections | grep softmaker

to know what components are installed on you PC. This will give you like following output:

softmaker-freeoffice-2016:i386          install 

Now you know what is installed so to remove with the following:

sudo dpkg -r "component name"   

i.e. for given output: sudo dpkg -r softmaker-freeoffice-2016:i386

that should solve everyone's problem.

Answer 2

Look for the freeoffice directory in your home directory. (If the folder can't be found there, but you know you have the software installed, execute sudo find / -iname freeoffice) Delete that folder and all of its contents (either by dragging it to the trash and emptying the trash can, or my executing sudo -rf freeoffice from its parent folder.)

There is also a .softmaker folder either in ~/ or in / (if the program was installed as root). Delete it also.

Go to ~/.local/share/applications (or /usr/local/share/appliations or /usr/share/application) and execute sudo rm *-free.desktop to remove the icons associated with the programs. This will also remove the programs from the "Open With" menu.

Finally, there is a SoftMaker directory in ~/ (or /), which should also be deleted.

Answer 3

Appending to Aizuddin Zali's grep command:

after running the command dpkg -l | grep softmake* , i noted that the package name was softmaker-freeoffice-2016

Then, ran command, sudo apt-get remove softmaker-freeoffice-2016 . That's all.

Answer 4

First, change to root user instance

sudo su

This installs locate if you don't have it.

apt install -y mlocate

Update files' location database

updatedb

Locate uninstaller, get first of the list and run it

locate uninstallfreeoffice|head -1|sh