How to remove Wireshark from my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS?

Question

I installed an application called Wireshark, using:

sudo apt-get install wireshark

I searched it and launched it. Then, I tried to uninstall it using GUI. But it is not removing.

I tried using:

sudo apt-get remove wireshark

And the weird thing is that the application is still in the system!

What happened when you did sudo apt-get remove wireshark? That should work. Also, a program will keep running after the package that it belongs to is removed; you just can't restart it after you close it. — Jos, Sep 19 '16 at 20:33

biber · Accepted Answer · 2016-09-19 21:19:23Z

The following procedure should wipe wireshark from your system: First uninstall the wireshark package and all related configuration files:

sudo apt-get remove --purge wireshark

Then remove all dependencies that are no longer needed:

sudo apt-get autoremove

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