I installed Skype on my nephew's new Ubuntu 14.04 LTS machine, and now we've decided to remove it. But I'm not able to locate it in my Installed programs section of Ubuntu Software Center. I'm able to call it up by opening the debian package, Software Center opens it up, but where I would normally see the "Remove" button, I have a "Reinstall" button. For the life of me, I can't figure out how to uninstall Skype. Any suggestions? In case you're wondering I used the version of Skype designed for 12.xx, as there was no option available for Ubuntu 14.xx.
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My case is something different, here i run two commands :-
dpkg --get-selections | grep 'skype'
output is :- skype-bin:i386 install
So, to remove i run :-
sudo apt-get --purge remove skype-bin:i386
and after that i remove ".Skype" from home directory
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1While the "skypeforlinux" answer was correct for my particular use case, this shows me how in general to find what I have installed as well as know how to remove it.– PhilAug 4, 2018 at 6:35
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To uninstall completely Skype from your system you just type the following line in Terminal:
sudo apt-get purge skype
And next time if you decide to install Skype again, follow How to install Skype 4.3
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1As @harts12 recommends we need to apply after
sudo apt-get autoremove
. Which is correct, simply verify it by runningsudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y
and you will see something like:The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
... (list of packages)...Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
– ThanosJun 19, 2017 at 8:00
In my case:
sudo apt-get --purge remove skypeforlinux
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sudo apt-get --purge remove skype-bin:i386 removed the old skype for me Dec 31, 2017 at 11:59
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This uninstalls the Skype that works properly in Ubuntu 16.04 Sep 24, 2018 at 6:05
Sometimes just doing :
sudo apt-get --purge remove skype
will not uninstall skype 4.3 version
Hence i would recommend doing :
sudo apt-get --purge remove skype:i386
and then going to home directory do "ctrl+H" and remove .skype folder...
This worked for me on Ubuntu 16.04.2 as of the date of this answer.
Remove package:
sudo apt remove skypeforlinux
Remove config:
rm -rf ~/.config/skypeforlinux
Remove repo:
sudo rm -v /etc/apt/sources.list.d/skype-*
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It is the best answer. I had saved config with bugs after reinstall and only this solution helped for me. Jul 16, 2018 at 22:55
Install and use Synaptic Package Manager, which you can find in Software Center to remove Skype. It is easy to manage installed/update/remove applications in this thing.
About Synaptic here - Synaptic Package Manager
This is how I removed skype
dpkg --get-selections | grep 'skype'
sudo apt-get --purge remove skypeforlinux
I did the following pair of commands on Ubuntu 16.04.02 to get rid of Skype 4.3:
sudo apt-get --purge remove skype
sudo apt-get autoremove
The first by itself still left a fully functional Skype installation. Autoremove took finished removing Skype without needing to manually delete any directories.
Edit:
The answers using skypeforlinux
are for the newer versions of Skype (e.g. Skype 5.3).
If you have installed your skype from official skype then it will be
sudo apt-get --purge remove skypeforlinux
If this not works then you need to check your skype name, run below command to check it :-
dpkg --get-selections | grep 'skype'
output is :- skypelinux install
So, to remove i run :-
sudo apt-get --purge remove skypeforlinux
If you have installed it from software centre then you can un-install it from there also.
dpkg --get-selections | grep 'skype'