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I have installed a programme(Dragonfly ORS) using chmod u+x DragonflyInstaller ./DragonflyInstaller in my user home directory aks@HPGM512GB:~/ORS/Dragonfly$.

How can I uninstall any program using the terminal without sudo and root access?

To remove the programme, I used "rm -rf ORS", which did remove the installed programme. But I believe it has not completely uninstalled. I still see the old thumbnail and software behave unexpectedly after reinstall. It shows the error Segmentation fault (core dumped) which happening(I believe) because the program did not uninstall properly.

Could you please help me with the correct way of uninstalling a programme without admin access?

Thanks

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  • Related post
    – Emil
    Feb 24, 2021 at 20:11
  • Which program did you install? Without knowing where all the installer copied the installation files, we really cannot answer the question. Please edit your question and add this information. Feb 24, 2021 at 20:18
  • Why do you believe it has not fully uninstalled? What symptoms/evidence do you see that indicates parts of the program have not been removed?
    – Enterprise
    Feb 24, 2021 at 20:22
  • Did you remove the program or did you uninstall it? There are totally separate things.
    – Eagle_Mike
    Feb 24, 2021 at 20:36
  • You ran the script ./programme_installer and given I've never seen a script of that name, I cannot possibly know (though even if I had seen the script, I'd need to know the actual version etc). I would explore the script itself & see what it does, and work from there. What that script did, will dictate how to uninstall.
    – guiverc
    Feb 24, 2021 at 21:59

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Since the programme was installed on the user Home directory, " rm -rf ORS" did remove the program files and folder. Problem was due to the additional folder./ORS, which was still not removed. I removed the ./ORS folder, and the issue got resolved.

PS: My question was, "how to uninstall programs without sudo privileges", which I assumed should work by removing the programs folder rm -rf programme_folder.

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