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I installed a driver a while ago and now need to remove it to be able to install a new driver. The new driver is compatible with Software Center but will not install saying it cannot co-exist with the old driver.

The old driver was installed in Terminal. I have tried

sudo apt-get purge driver

and

sudo apt-get autoremove driver

but it will not uninstall. Any other ideas?

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You have to provide real information. How did you install it? "Outside software center" means nothing. You could've copied it in place yourself, compiled it or anything. Without good data, there's nothing to help people provide an answer. – Jo-Erlend Schinstad Oct 14 '11 at 14:52
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You may even consider to add the name of the driver. Somebody may have had a similar problem with it ;) – Takkat Oct 14 '11 at 15:10

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I suspect that what you are missing is the name of the package containing the driver (if I'm wrong, please provide more information). So, first of all, we have to find the name of the package. There are two ways to proceed, choose the one you prefer.

If you prefer to use a graphical application, you can open Synaptic package manager, then select Origin → Local from the left sidebar. From there, you can see the list of all the locally installed package (i.e. the packages that were not installed through a software repository). Once you have found your driver, you can right-click on it and Mark (it) for removal.

If, instead, you prefer the terminal, you can get a list of the locally installed packages with this command:

aptitude search "~Ol"

Once you have found the name of your package, just use sudo apt-get remove PACKAGE.

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~Ol gives me a series of non installed packages. Where do you get that string? – enzotib Oct 14 '11 at 16:47

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