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Remove other operating systems, as in dual-booting.

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how to remove files in a list of paths easily?

I have a list of lines like /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libavfilter.so /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libavfilter.so.3 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libavfilter.so.3.42.103 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/...
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Is there a usage count for packages or programs?

Motivation: I want to remove applications I do not use to speed up my package processing tasks like dist upgrades, regular updates, but also for saving disk space and other reasons. I know this is a ...
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How to remove system locales

How to remove system locales, as oppose to package locales as asked in How to remove unnecessary locales?? I'm getting the following errors recently: locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No ...
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How do I remove Arduino completely?

I have tried remove Arduino on Ubuntu 16.04 but apt doesn't remove it. These are the commands that I've tried: sudo apt-get remove arduino sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove arduino sudo apt-get ...
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How to remove or uninstall a Unity scope

I intalled the Unity Photo Lens using this commands: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:scopes-packagers/ppa && sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install unity-lens-photo unity-scope-flickr unity-...
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Why apt-get purge wants to install packages while I use --no-download and --no-install-recommends?

I am using Debian but I think this can be easily posted here. I have already uninstalled openoffice packages from my Debian machine but somehow apt-get put abiword in his place. Now I would like to ...
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How to purge okular?

I have ubuntu 20.10, 64 bit. In Menu, there are 2 instances of Okular. I can use it but cannot remove via Terminal. igor@igor-System-Product-Name:~$ sudo apt remove okular Reading package lists... ...
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How do I remove the brontok virus that has infected my Ubuntu via Wine?

My laptop runs on Ubuntu and was recently infected with the brontok virus it managed to infect my Ubuntu - through my flash drive - because I have Wine installed. I had used the USB in an infected ...
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How to move windows files to ubuntu without dual booting?

I'm about to install ubuntu again after using windows for a couple of months and I was wondering if there was way to move my files to ubuntu during installation, maybe dual booting, moving them, then ...
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Can not remove VirtualBox Guest Additions with "apt-get remove" command

I have tried to remove package with "remove" command, but there was not any request to delete it, even though something was found. I'm newbie, so maybe I made something wrong? vic@vic-VirtualBox:~$ ...
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Why did Ubuntu try to self-destruct?

I was using Ubuntu happily for some months (almost fully updated, latest AMD driver and everything). About a week ago I started trying to install some games that I bought on Humble Bundle that I ...
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How can I remove jdownloader?

How can I remove jdownloader? I installed it by the following process: sudo apt-add-repository ppa:jd-team/jdownloader sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install jdownloader
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Windows XP Dual boot removal

I've had Ubuntu dual booted with Windows XP for awhile now and I think it's time to get rid of windows. How do I do this correctly so I don't mess up my hard drive?
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Removing Texlive From Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Installed using terminal, apt-get)

I am using TexLive 2015 and I would like to move on to 2016 or even better 2017. I read on internet that uninstalling and doing a fresh install is a better idea than upgrading TexLive, is it true? ...
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How to remove in correct way qt4 development libraries? [duplicate]

Since I am using Qt5 stuff which installed in /opt directory and about to install Ubuntu SDK seems like Qt4 packages will be redundant in my system. Moreover I am not in need exactly Qt4 libs. So how ...
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I am installing Ubuntu for the first time, i want it to be my main OS

So i have Windows 8.1 or something like that right now but it's a dirty version since i once have sent it to a friend to repair it for me, but this is not the reason why i want to switch, i do it ...
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Removing Windows - a safe procedure

I'm finally ready to completely switch to Ubuntu a and remove my Windows partition. Ubuntu is installed in its own primary partition, so it should be pretty easy, but I'd like to make sure not to run ...
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How to remove g++

I recently installed the g++ complier for c++ coding somehow its messing with my fonts and only a restart fixes the issue. Is there any way to uninstall g++?and is that safe to do?
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Removing Ubuntu and Installing CentOS

I currently have a dual boot Acer laptop running Windows 8 and Ubuntu. I want to remove Ubuntu 13.10 and install CentOS on that partition instead. What's the safest and best way to remove it? I still ...
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Removing an Ubuntu installation

I first had windwos 7, then I installed Ubuntu alongside and when my laptop starts I can choose between ubuntu and windows (the ubuntu boot screen) . Now I have installed another ubuntu inside the ...
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Completely remove openssl dev version

I installed openssl dev version from github. However, I now wish to remove it to install openssl from the official repos. I tried to remove it using sudo apt-get remove --purge openssl but it's still ...
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How to remove audio from an avi video?

With reference to a previous question entitled 'Remove audio Tracks from a video file' I could not get it to work. voice is 0:0 and audio is 0:1. I get the following error. I would like to remove the ...
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How do you delete a folder that contains spaces?

So I finally got my Ubuntu box up and running, ran the LAMP install, and successfully loaded up the apache2 webserver, and php5. The one thing I didn't want is for Ubuntu during the installation to ...
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Safely remove linux partition and grub from windows

How do I safely remove ubuntu partition from windows? I messed up with ubuntu update; now the desktop is empty, no launchbar and no sidebar, although all the files are there and the terminal is ...
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How to remove grub completely

I have two HD, one with windows 8 installed and on the other with Ubuntu 17.04 that I installed using a bootable USB drive. This worked in the beginning as I was able to boot into windows and Ubuntu ...
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How exclude folders for remove when using ( rm -rf *) on the parent dir

i run the following command line to remove all files/dirs in directory : cd /home/abdennour/android/ rm -rf * the architecture of this directory is as following : /home/...
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Ubuntu mate 20.04 I am unable to delete the Trash files. I have tried sudo rm -rf ~/.local/share/Trash etc but the files remain

As in the title I have used the file manager with admin permissions and cannot delete files using shift delete. I have tried all the suggestions on Ask Ubuntu without success. help
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How to remove Ubuntu and install Windows with no USB or CD? [closed]

My situation is slightly different from that described in other similar threads. Specifically: I have Ubuntu installed and it's the only OS installed. I have a Windows 10 ISO but no USB or CD. I want ...
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Removing sublimetext installation

I followed this link http://www.technoreply.com/how-to-install-sublime-text-2-on-ubuntu-12-04-unity/ To install sublime-text 2 and i followed the steps hoping it would work and it does. Except that ...
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How can I remove my hard drive icons from my desktop? [duplicate]

I'd like to remove some of the icons on my desktop but I cant seem to find out how. Specifically I'm talking about my hard drive, its partitions, and the file system. Any help would be great! I'm ...
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Kde not removed?

I have been used ubuntu 12.04 whit KDE, before I upgraded to 12.10 i removed KDE. Now some programs, icons and buttons still have the KDE skin while i'm using UNITY? How can i fix this? PS: i know ...
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Moving my folder from Desktop to Downloads (Folder)

I tried to move a folder from my Desktop into my Downloads folder several times, all my tries end up with renaming my folder name only. ex: tuxedo@cosmos:~/Desktop$ sudo mv myFolder Downloads I don't ...
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How to remove a wallpaper on 22.04 LTS after applying it?

I wanted to choose a wallpaper by right clicking and selecting "Configure Desktop and Wallpapers". I tested this using a a .jpg image and clicked "+Add Image" and then OK. I didn't ...
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Remove special repository

In trying to install googledrive repository with google-drive-ocamlfuse, I got stuck with this error: cannot access 'googledrive': Transport endpoint is not connected I can't remove googledrive (...
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Usinstalling BricsCAD V15 on Ubuntu 14.04 is not possible?

I have installed BricsCAD V15 from the internet as .deb and the USC helped to complete the installation, what ever I could not find it on the Synaptic Package Manager and I also can't uninstall it ...
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Switching to Ubuntu from Windows

I've been using Ubuntu for a while now. I still have windows installed and it's taking up the majority of my hard drive space. I want to fully switch to Ubuntu though. I've backed up everything I need ...
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Remove GRUB boot selecting after Windows is gone

I've been looking for this answer quite a while in the last few days, but all google and question searches here seem to retrieve are for removing grub and restoring Windows's bootloader after deleting ...
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I am new to ubuntu and have some questions way beyond a first timer

Back story is I was given a desktop with ubuntu 12.04 installed and the guy could not remember any of his setup(u/n pass) info. He told me to just install what os i wanted over his. When i did this ...
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How to fresh install ubuntu 12.04 without removing windows 7

I have both Ubuntu and Windows 7 on my computer. I want to fresh install Ubuntu 12.04. I want to remove older Ubuntu and install Ubuntu 12.04 without any changes on Windows 7. I know I can upgrade ...
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How do I switch between Ubuntu and Vista and how do I delete Ubuntu?

So I was wondering how do I switch between Windows Vista and Ubuntu? And also, if need to, how do I go about deleting Ubuntu?
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update from 20.04 to 22.04: problem

When upgrading from 20 to 22 I always have a package that is not updated: sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done ...
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Linux image impossible to remove

For some reason Ican't boot Ubuntu with the 5.13 kernel (it's stuck on the logo screen). When I launch Ubuntu with the previous version of the kernel (5.11) it works perfectly. I tried to remove the 5....
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I have 2 __pycache__ folders I want to remove

I've tried running the find . | grep -E "(__pycache__|\.pyc|\.pyo$)" | xargs rm -rf command but it says access denied. I can't find any better help. I'm a complete computer idiot btw. Anyone ...
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cannot delete a file that does exist

I started copying a (large) file inside a python script with copyfile from shutil and I had to interrupt the transfer. Now I notice that I cannot delete the file The file that I am trying to delete is ...
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Deleting Multiple Progressive Files Using Command Line

I have set of image files in a directory that I want to delete using command-line. The file names progress as follows: image0000.png .... image0599.png I know we will need to use for-loop in the ...
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How can I get autoremove to actually remove things?

I'm using Ubuntu 18.04. I want to clean out the /usr/src directory, but didn't want to do it manually using the advice here -- Safe to remove /usr/src/linux-headers after purging older linux images? ....
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Kernel dependency issue on Ubuntu 16.0.4

I'm new to Ubuntu system. My server runs on Ubuntu 16.0.4 and kernel is 4.4.0-98-generic as shown by uname -r. I have successfully removed some of kernel images, but I'm experiencing the issue with ...
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Unable to remove old kernel's to free up space on /boot [duplicate]

sudo apt-get purge linux-image-x.x.x-x-generic does not work Unable to install anything as in synaptics, because there is no space on boot. I get a message that boot has 0 bytes available. After ...
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How to remove proxy permanently from ubuntu>

How to remove proxy permanently from Ubuntu? I tried the following but each time I restart it shows up and I have to rerun the command. env|grep proxy while read var; do unset $var; done < <(...
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How to remove old kernel in 16.04

I am using Linux Ubuntu mate-desktop 4.4.0-24-generic #43-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jun 8 19:27:37 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux. Just recently I am experiencing problems with updating and ...
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