I have installed the cloud storage program, "Copy" and want to uninstall it. How do I do that?
3 Answers
Follow these steps to completely remove Copy from your system:
Disable autostart for each user, if necessary. (You don't need to use
sudo
if no other user accounts on your system are using Copy)...sudo rm -rf /home/<user>/.config/autostart/CopyAgent.desktop
Log out and log back in. This will shut down the running copy process so it does not re-create the files you are about to delete in step 3. (You can also just kill the "CopyAgent" process using System Monitor if you don't want to log out.)
Execute the following for each user, if necessary. (You don't need to use
sudo
if no other user accounts on your system are using Copy).sudo rm -rf /home/<user>/<path_to_users_copy_folder>/.copy.cache/ sudo rm -rf /home/<user>/<path_to_users_copy_folder>/.user_info sudo rm -rf /home/<user>/.copy sudo rm -rf /home/<user>/.icons
If you had manually installed the Nautilus overlay icons, uninstall them...
sudo <installation_location>/<architecture>/CopyCmd Overlay remove
Uninstall Copy software...
sudo rm -rf /root/.copy
If you had manually added a launcher shortcut, remove it. Assuming you called the launcher "copy.desktop" do the following.
For all users...
sudo rm /usr/share/applications/copy.desktop
Or, for each user...
sudo rm /home/<user>/.local/share/applications/copy.desktop
Note, in the above steps...
- Replace
<user>
with the user on your system that is using Copy. - Replace
<path_to_users_copy_folder>
with the user's local "Copy" folder (for example,Documents/Copy
). - Replace
<installation_location>
with the location where you installed Copy (for example/usr/share/copy
). - Replace
<architecture>
with "x86
" (if you have a 32bit computer) or with "x86_64
" (if you have a 64bit computer).
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I just want to warn that if you manually installed some icon themes into your ~/.icons folder, be careful not to delete them in the step 3 along with the copy-*.svg icons.– jenaMar 26, 2016 at 15:52
cd
to the Copy installation directory where CopyAgent
and CopyCmd
are present
And then enter
sudo ./CopyCmd overlay remove
To uninstall open terminal by press Ctrl + Alt + T in a keyboard, then copy this following to terminal window
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove copy
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2If it was not installed as an Ubuntu package or .deb, apt-get won't work to uninstall it. Jun 4, 2014 at 2:39