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I want to uninstall acroread that I downloaded from adobe's website and installed. How can I do that?

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  • How did you install it? What guide did you follow?
    – dadexix86
    Mar 2, 2012 at 16:56
  • @dadexix86 I installed it through the installer program from the adobe's website.
    – sawa
    Mar 2, 2012 at 17:30

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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.

(Taken from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1453166#5)

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    My +1 for you ! :)
    – Pratik Joshi
    Dec 26, 2015 at 16:38
  • This worked for me on Ubuntu 20.04
    – Philippe Delteil
    Aug 18, 2020 at 18:49
  • This is it, because the package installed from .deb showed the package name adobereader-enu, not adobereader
    – Sayan Dey
    Mar 11, 2021 at 13:10
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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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    I 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/
    – Maksim Dmitriev
    Oct 3, 2014 at 17:06
  • $ locate UNINSTALL returned nothing in my case.
    – Gaurav Agarwal
    Sep 8, 2020 at 2:09
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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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    This seems to be the only viable solution on 14.04.
    – Luís de Sousa
    Dec 31, 2015 at 15:35
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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.

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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
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  • Good. this worked for me.
    – yakhyo
    Jan 5, 2023 at 9:26
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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.

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sudo rm -Rf /opt/Adobe

Ubuntu 18.04

Try this command, it worked for me.

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