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I installed it using the .deb package from their website and I've turned the internet upside down looking for a way to do so and nothing works, terminal doesn't recognize 'foxitreader' and when I use dpkg to list all the programs, it is just not listed, or listed below another name. HELP!

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Let me clarify that using Ubuntu Software to remove it is... well, useless. – Eliecer Thoms Aug 25 '16 at 11:36
    
How did you install it? – Mark Kirby Aug 25 '16 at 11:41
    
What is the output of dpkg --get-selections *foxit*? – Sujeet Sinha Aug 25 '16 at 11:43
    
If i remember correctly, you install foxit reader from deb package. So removal would be via dpkg --remove . You will need to know package name for that. Use dpkg --get-selections | grep foxit for that – Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy Aug 25 '16 at 11:43
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@MarkKirby just post it – Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy Aug 25 '16 at 12:03
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The installer tells you where the file was installed in. For me it was home/(user)/opt/foxitsoftware/foxitreader. In that directory is "maintenancetool.sh" which will give you a gui for uninstalling when run.

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Can you add some detail here? What folder was it installed in? – Mark Kirby Aug 25 '16 at 12:03
    
Done @MarkKirby – Eliecer Thoms Aug 25 '16 at 12:05
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Wait, home/user/opt ? Should that not be just /opt? – Mark Kirby Aug 25 '16 at 12:07
    
That's what it showed. – Eliecer Thoms Aug 25 '16 at 12:18
    
I guess the installer made that directory then. – Mark Kirby Aug 25 '16 at 12:19
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The foxit reader program is installed manually. To uninstall, go to ~/opt/foxitsoftware/foxitreader and then run ./maintenancetool file and click uninstall.

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The download is not for a .deb file, it is a .run file.

The .run file is not installed via dpkg, it is a custom installer.

The way to remove it is, run the .run file again and find the directory where it was installed.

In this folder you will find an uninstall file, run this to remove Foxit.

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I tried every method I saw, but none did the job. The ./maintenancetool didn't do the trick. Also the ./uninstaller was worthless.

So I used:

rm -R /opt/foxitsoftware

I'm not sure whether this could have negative consequences though.

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