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I install dwm via apt, and I want to remove it and build it from source. Problem is I can't get rid of it! I've done

sudo apt-get remove dwm
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove dwm
sudo apt-get purge dwm
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove dwm

it just keeps telling me that dwm is not installed. If I do locate dwm all that comes up is some dwmac stuff, yet I can still run dwm as my window manager when I log in.

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Installing from the repositories isn't very useful since you can't configure it. However, it is convenient to install with apt-get so that, when building from source, it is added to the options in the login screen. You don't need to uninstall it to install from source.

Source and further instructions: https://cannibalcandy.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/installing-and-configuring-dwm-under-ubuntu/

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  • I did not actually need to entirely remove the program, I just had to download and recompile the source. The OS seems to have done most of the work.
    – cp420
    Jul 7, 2016 at 1:39

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