I want to uninstall acroread that I downloaded from adobe's website and installed. How can I do that?
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Or if that still doesn't work and returns Package acroread is not installed, so not removed
you can try sudo apt-get purge adobereader-enu && sudo apt-get autoremove
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(Taken from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1453166#5)
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This is it, because the package installed from .deb showed the package name adobereader-enu, not adobereader Mar 11, 2021 at 13:10
There is an UNINSTALL script in the same folder where you installed it.
$ locate UNINSTALL
/usr/local/Adobe/Reader9/bin/UNINSTALL
$ cd /usr/local/Adobe/Reader9/bin
$ sudo ./UNINSTALL
Done!
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1I also had to remove an icon of Adobe Reader from the list of applications in GNOME. The icon was in
~/.local/share/applications/
. It might also be in/usr/share/applications/
Oct 3, 2014 at 17:06 -
I also tried many ways to uninstall adobe reader 9 and this method worked for me
sudo apt-get purge acroread-bin
sudo apt-get autoremove
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If you have installed it manually, then you have can run
locate adobereader
Then remove it from there and delete the folder.
I installed Adobe Reader based on video here: https://youtu.be/04-J55bnTLQ Then, I saw the software only allows me to see pdf files, but not to sign them; for uninstall Adobe Reader,it worked for me this:
sudo apt-get purge adobereader-enu && sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get remove acroread
or if you have Synaptic installed you can use that as well.
It should also show up in Software Center if your search for it, but I'm not well-versed in Software Center.