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How can I uninstall matlab from Ubuntu 14.04? Its not a licensed one I guess.

When I run: sudo apt-get purge matlab-support, it shows: Matlab not installed

Also tried sudo apt-get purge matlab

Can anyone please help me?

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    For an answer you will need to provide an answer to "How did you install it?". If not through apt then purge obviously does not work. Manual install? See if there is an uninstall script otherwise you use "rm"
    – Rinzwind
    May 12, 2017 at 5:44
  • Firstly , I unzipped the file using unzip "FILE"
    – Harish Bodduna
    May 12, 2017 at 6:50
  • Then , using sudo ./ install i installed it.
    – Harish Bodduna
    May 12, 2017 at 6:50
  • @HarishBodduna since you did not install using apt, you cannot remove using apt.
    – user535733
    May 12, 2017 at 11:39

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Try this :)

cd to etc directory 

sudo ./lmdown or sudo bash lmdown

cd back to root 

sudo rm /var/tmp/lm_TMW*
rm /usr/local/bin/matlab /usr/local/bin/mcc /usr/local/bin/mex /usr/local/bin/mbuild /usr/local/bin/matlab /usr/local/bin/mex
sudo apt-get purge matlab-support

or

sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove matlab-support

restart

let me know if this works

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  • sudo ./lmdown not working neither sudo bash lmdown
    – Harish Bodduna
    May 12, 2017 at 6:52
  • does it work with out it ?
    – MeganFoxz
    May 12, 2017 at 6:53
  • If it didn't work maybe its not there to begin with , try the rest of the commands and skip the first one and let me know what happens
    – MeganFoxz
    May 12, 2017 at 8:05

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