Questions about uninstalling softwares in Ubuntu, or uninstalling Ubuntu from a computer.
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How do I uninstall or disable the entire dash in Unity?
I love using Unity except for the dash. Is it possible to uninstall or disable the dash?
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Blacklisting grub packages from installing
I am trying to block GRUB packages from being installed (after having purged them). The problem is virtually identical to Blacklisting packages from installing and even involves GRUB which is exactly ...
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How to safely remove Ubuntu 12.04 from a dual-boot installation with Windows XP? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to remove Ubuntu and put Windows back on?
I have an Acer Netbook with Windows XP on it.
I had installed Ubuntu 12.04 (actually upgraded from 10.?? to 11.04 to 11.10 ...
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Replace Unity with Gnome / Cinnamon [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I install the Cinnamon Desktop?
I have already installed Ubuntu 12.04 and now cannot reinstall Kubuntu Xubuntu etc.
I don't want Unity and its associated stuff ...
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Uninstall ubuntu one for windows 7 [duplicate]
I recently installed ubuntu one for windows and now would like to uninstall it. Problem is; there is no uninstall.exe to be found in the start menu or in the ubuntuone folder. There is a Uninstall ...
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What is “Nepomuk Backup” and why is it installed?
I've noticed a new item under Applications -> System Tools: Nepomuk Backup.
I haven't installed it, and it just showed up recently.
Why is it there and why was it installed (possibly with some ...
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Why am I unable to remove the Ubuntu One icon?
I have removed the Ubuntu One icon from the Unity launcher and it keeps returning. I right click the icon and uncheck the 'Keep in Launcher' option.
I do not use this service and I want to remove it ...
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How do I completely remove ekiga?
How do I completely remove ekiga via sudo apt-get remove --purge seems to leave some information when i re-install ekiga. can i rm -rvf even tho ekiga is not just in the home file but in the ...
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I can't remove a package - what should I do?
I'm trying to remove libavcodec52 package but it won't work. If I try through Software Central it just tells me it didn't work and to check my internet conection.
If I try it at the terminal, this ...
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Delete a Directory
Consider this example. I download a tar.gz file from the internet and open the contents of that file into a directory. Let's say I choose to remove the directory. Unfortunately, I do not have ...
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What did evolution install and how can I safely remove all of it, wihtout screwing up unity?
I installed evolution briefly, didnt like it and tried uninstalling.
$ sudo apt-get purge evolution
After I checked what else was installed called evolution
$ dpkg -l | grep -i evolution
ii ...
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Diet ubuntu for 12.04?
The Diet Ubuntu article on ubuntu wiki lists package names that are useful potential candidates for "bloatware" for some users that want remove some packages. But this article was written in 2008 and ...
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How do I remove Windows 7 when I am dual booting Ubuntu 12.10 as well [duplicate]
I would like to remove the Windows 7 OS and only use the Ubuntu 12.10 install. Is there a way for it to work?
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I can't add or remove any programs
I got this message when i try to add or remove any program
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/aptdaemon/worker.py", line 285, in _process_transaction
...
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Ubuntu Remove/Uninstall from single boot system
My problem is I have ubuntu 11.04 installed on my system. I have no other os installed. I have tried to install windows xp using bootable cd of XP. But it doesn't work. Blank screen appears. How can I ...
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Uninstall Steam Beta on Ubuntu 12
I uninstalled steam beta via sudo apt-get remove steam, but it doesn't remove ~/.steam and ~/.local/Steam where most of the files are. Is the Uninstaller corrupt?
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how to remove lubuntu and install ubuntu
I recently purchased a Thinkpad R40 with Lubuntu on it but don't have the install cd's. The person I got it from doesn't know the administrator password so I can't access any changes. I went to the ...
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Remove Ubuntu and install Ubuntu Server as a fresh start
I have Ubuntu 12.04 installed on my laptop and I want to remove it and install Ubuntu Server. How would I do that?
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Uninstall Windows 7 from ubuntu? [duplicate]
I have installed ubuntu inside windows 7 via wubi. How do i uninstall windows 7, keeping ubuntu as my primary OS?
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multiple preinstalled programs with similar jobs
I have unity, gnome-shell and xubuntu on my laptop. They all have their favorite preinstalled programs it seems. Do I really need three text editors for example? Could I remove two and just have the ...
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Is it possible to uninstall a software from Ubuntu 12.04 installed on USB stick?
I have Installed Ubuntu 12.04 on a USB stick. Now, is it possible to uninstall a software (the software is remastersys) from this USB stick installation? How can I do that?
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How do I remove Cinnamon?
Today I installed Cinnamon 1.4 but when I log in to it I can't see any panels, just my background image. Can you tell me how to log in to Unity using the terminal and how to remove Cinnamon?
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uninstalling Ubuntu Partition
I want to uninstall Ubuntu that I have partitioned on my hard drive? I want it uninstalled so that I can install the new version for Windows that allows for Dual Booting(alongside Windows)How do I get ...
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Can't remove libreoffice3.5-dict-de package
I just installed the wrong version of LibreOffice (x86 instead of 64bit). So I tried to remove it but I get this error:
> aptitude remove libreoffice3.5-dict-de
Couldn't find package ...
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Uninstall Ubuntu TV
i was testing and installed Ubuntu TV via instructions which can be found here. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuTV/Contributing
But how do I remove it? make uninstall doesn't work and I am stuck. It is ...
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Can I uninstall Totem?
In my opinion, VLC is a much better and much faster player than Totem, and plays everything without having to need all of the extra junk Totem comes with. My question is, can you safely uninstall ...
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How to delete Lazarus completely?
Some time ago Lazarus began to work incorrect ("the project uses target OS Linux and i386"). It doesn't work at all now - I can't compile even an empty program. I tried to remove Lazarus several ...
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Remove old emblems from previous Nautilus version
I've upgraded to Ubuntu 11.10, and I'd like to remove the emblems I put on certain folders from the previous menu of nautilus.
How can I do this?
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How do I remove an extension from LibreOffice 3?
I click the remove button, but nothing happens...
Is there any way to remove an extension? I have 3 to get rid of.
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Uninstalled aplications still show launcher icons under installed aplications?
The question is in the title, I always remove applications that I do not use after installing or upgrading, this includes games etc (wish it was possible to install Ubuntu with no applications then ...
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Error with APE Server Installation
I was trying to install APE-Server from the .deb file at the ape-server homepage (www.ape-project.org) and I ran into an error so wanted to try removing the installation and reinstalling. I did a ...
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How to remove a duplicate Ubuntu Installation without ruining OS boot menu
I have a dual boot setup: windows vista and ubuntu.
But, I actually have a duplicate Ubuntu install that I setup a long time ago to get my bootmenu back... (my computer at one point could not find ...
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Unable to Add or Remove applications in Ubuntu Software Center [duplicate]
I am trying to add or remove applications from Ubuntu Software Center but ending up with the following error
Software can't be installed or removed because the authentication service is
not ...
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Postgresql 8.2 service will not stop and uninstall
My system config is as follows:
System (running on Amazon EC2)
Ubuntu 10.04
Postgresql-8.2 installed and it is working.
ubuntu@ip:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.2 status:
Running clusters: ...
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Cleaning up Ubuntu files from Windows
Installed Ubuntu using wubi along side windows vista but on a separate drive (say E:, while my windows was in C:). It was all working fine.
One fine day, when I logged into Ubuntu, got a popup from ...
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Installing multi-boot Linux system
I have a dual (XP/Linux) boot Compaq Presario S4500UK with a couple of spare partitions on the boot drive which I want to use for testing different Linux distros/configs before installing them on ...
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Remove Unity Icon when 'Unlock from Launcher' does not appear
I recently installed the LibreOffice 3.5.4.2 meta package via the Ubuntu Software Center. This does not contain LibreOffice Base, so I installed it separately via the Ubuntu Software Center as well.
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How can I “toggle” the unity launcher?
I don't want to hide it, like put my mouse of the top-left/left side of the screen, I want to have like a ccsm plugin that can say to turn it on/off. How can I do this but also have the possibility to ...
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How can I remove the mail icon and drop-down menu from the Ubuntu 12.04 task bar? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to remove the Mail icon indicator applet?
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04.
Is it possible to completely remove the 'mail' icon + drop-down menu from task-bar? If you can ...
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How do I remove Ubuntu from windows?
I installed the Ubuntu for Windows version on my vista and it crashed after updating. I tried first to delete it like any other regular app (because that with Ubuntu claims you could), but that didn't ...
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Can't remove CouchDB
Under 11.04, when I do sudo couchdb -V, I get a response like "couchdb - Apache CouchDB 1.1.1". When I do couchdb -V, without sudo, I get that no package/program like that is installed. I've tried ...
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Unable to delete files from drive in Banshee [closed]
When I imported all of my music from my iPod into Banshee, I got all of the wrong music, so I decided to delete it all. Now it says that there is no such file or directory, so it won't delete the ...
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Complete Ubuntu Removal [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to remove Ubuntu and put Windows back on?
I would like to completely remove Ubuntu from my hard drive, but I do not know how. I want to remove it because I just ...
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Can I uninstall & replace Firefox with another browser of my choice?
I don't like the Firefox Web browser, and I prefer to use something else.
How can I remove it and use a browser of my choice?
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What is the Difference Between `apt-get purge` and `apt-get remove`? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the correct way to completely remove an application?
Is there any difference between
sudo apt-get purge <package-name>
and
sudo apt-get remove ...
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3answers
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Ways to completely uninstall Ubuntu
I've been trying for hours to remove Ubuntu which is the only OS on my laptop. I don't have a Windows installation there. I've followed various bits of help, including trying to get boot-repair to ...
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How to remove old Linux kernel modules »tp_smapi«? [duplicate]
~$ locate tp_smapi
/lib/modules/3.0.0-19-generic/updates/dkms/tp_smapi.ko
/lib/modules/3.2.0-26-generic/updates/dkms/tp_smapi.ko
/lib/modules/3.2.0-29-generic/updates/dkms/tp_smapi.ko
...
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Removing opera browser from xubuntu
I have downloaded opera from the website (dep package) and installed it now I want to remove it but I dont know how. I tried sudo apt-get remove opera but it didn't work.
Thanks in advance
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How to Remove elementary desktop environment?
I'm running ubuntu 12.10 and yesterday I installed elementary from ppa:elementary-os/daily. I later realized that elementary replaces the stock nautilus with another version that looks misplaced in ...
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Uninstalling/deleting Calligra
I am installed Calligra on Ubuntu 12.04, but I do not like it and now I want to uninstall it. I am installed unstable release with project-neon. I am tried to delete folder in /opt but I can not ...
