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.
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.
Since all other answers are outdated and not working, here is the working answer.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.
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.
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.
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
sudo apt-get remove softmaker-office
?dpkg -l | grep softmake*
. Share the output.sudo dpkg -r softmaker-office-2012
please comment after that.