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How to cleanly uninstall programs? [duplicate]

I just uninstalled my first program in Ubuntu (gtg - getting things gnome) and noticed that it didn't clean after itself. It left .config/gtg and .local/share/gtg both full with configs and task info ...
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Uninstall psensor

I've used this post as a guideline: How can you completely remove a package? More precisely i did in order: sudo apt-get purge psensor sudo apt-get autoremove Is there anything else i should do to ...
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Reinstall MS teams after upgrade to Ubuntu 21.10

I had MS Teams Preview running (mostly) smoothly on Ubuntu 20.04. After upgrading to Ubuntu 21.10 at first, Teams pretended to work flawlessly, but after some time, different issues occurred. For ...
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Does "apt autoremove --purge <package>" also remove configuration files for the related packages that are removed?

I assume the below command does the following (please correct me if I am wrong): I want to remove the package nginx and the related configuration files. I also want to remove any related package ...
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Trying to install spyder3, but getting spyder2

I'm currently using Ubuntu 16.04. When I try to install spyder3 from the repositories using apt-get install spyder3 It installs spyder2 for python3.5. so I get the splash screen, the interface and ...
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Kubuntu 17.04 : KDE not loading fully? [duplicate]

I have just upgraded from 16.04 to 16.10 then 17.04 through the system upgrades method and after logging in, I get a black screen and my mouse cursor once the KDE loading finishes. Normally there ...
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does "sudo apt --purge autoremove pkgname" clear literally all the dependencies or just the ones installed with the package?

I wanted to remove some random packages I had installed to try and get my Xbox controllers working, so I typed sudo apt --purge autoremove xboxdrv ubuntu-xboxdrv, as I read from this thread. The top ...
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Kubuntu 16.10 linux headers problem

Kubuntu 16.10 Asus N750J Hello, here repotyig problem. I try to update....: sudo apt-get update [sudo] password for user: Get:1 http: //security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu yakkety-security InRelease [102 ...
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Ubuntu won't boot up after removing libpython3.8-stdlib

Yesterday I was trying to install psycopg2 on my laptop but it wouldn't install. It complained about broken packages and about libpython3.8-stdlib. I decided to remove the package and to reinstall ...
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Footprint of installing and uninstalling a program on Ubuntu

Just a quick question. You know how in Windows, because of poorly-written programs, sometimes installing and uninstalling a program will leave records in the Windows Registry or AppData folder of a ...
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Error remove a package which is not installed

I always get a notification that: Ubuntu faced an internal error. After checking it turn out there is a package not fully installed or removed libapache2-mod-wsgi-py3. When I run: sudo apt-get ...
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Remove the Packages completely leaving no file? [duplicate]

I have uninstalled a package and i have added the ppa via terminal for example. I have to know that the packages have uninstalled successfully without leaving any file in my computer. Is there any ...
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Ubuntu still ask to update the package that I have removed

Recently I have removed the game 0 AD from my system by using sudo apt-get remove 0ad. But when I try to updated the packages by using sudo apt-get update followed by sudo apt-get upgrade, this is ...
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purging a program [duplicate]

I recently installed SDL2 and want to purge all of it from my system. I know there's a million different libraries scattered all over the system. anyway I can just uninstall everything without ...
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uninstall sqlyog in ubuntu 16.04

I am new to ubuntu and have started using ubuntu since 3 weeks.I used sqlyog in windows.so I had installed sqlyog in ubuntu.now i want to delete sqlyog from my ubuntu system.please provide step by ...
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