How do I remove Skype 4.3 from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (32-bit)

Question

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.

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

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...

Answer 4

In my case:

sudo apt-get --purge remove skypeforlinux

Answer 5

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

Answer 6

This is how I removed skype

dpkg --get-selections | grep 'skype'

sudo apt-get --purge remove skypeforlinux

Answer 7

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-*

Answer 8

As for me - I removed skype with this:

sudo dpkg --remove skypeforlinux

Answer 9

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).

Answer 10

sudo apt-get purge skype-bin

Only removing skype didn't work for me.