How to remove acroread [duplicate]

Question

After trying to install Acroread I did try to to remove it, with no success,

the message follows. Please help me because the software center was disabled as the result

sudo apt-get remove acroread
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Virtual packages like 'acroread' can't be removed
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 acroread-bin:i386 : Depends: libfontconfig1:i386 (>= 2.9.0) but 2.8.0-3ubuntu9.1 is to be installed
                     Depends: libxml2:i386 (>= 2.6.27) but it is not going to be installed
                     Depends: libxt6:i386 but it is not going to be installed
 google-chrome-stable:i386 : Depends: xdg-utils:i386 (>= 1.0.2) but it is not installable
 libxml2 : Depends: liblzma5 (>= 5.1.1alpha+20120614) but 5.1.1alpha+20110809-3 is to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

Answer 1

1) First, try to correct your apt-get error with this command :

sudo apt-get -f install

2) Optional step : it might be useful to upgrade your system :

sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

3) Then remove the package :

sudo apt-get remove --purge acroread*

4) And finally, remove all dependencies that might have to be uninstalled :

sudo apt-get autoremove