Questions tagged [software-uninstall]
for questions about uninstalling software on Ubuntu.
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Brave browser has a user interface problem
My Brave browser has a user interface problem. When I access various websites, the website's appearance is incomplete, including even in the Brave settings page itself.
I'm using Ubuntu 22.04 and have ...
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Move installed Python3.6 to another location/folder in Ubuntu 22.04
Hello folks and thanks for any help,
I needed to install Python 3.6 to fiddle with a script from a few years ago and the only way I found was through make files (compiler).
Steps are explained here : ...
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How do I purge my system of everything related to the Unreal ecosystem?
There are lots of search engine hits for how one removes this or that version of the Unreal Engine but that's not what I'm asking. I want to purge my system of anything related to the Unreal ...
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How to manage the softwares listed in the "Show Applications" but not detected by apt/snap
I installed a bunch of NVIDIA tools (e.g. nvidia nsight compute; nvidia visual profiler) by directly downloading an installation package from their website. Now I want to remove all these NVIDIA ...
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Protontricks still present after removing
I removed Protontricks with sudo apt remove protontricks && sudo apt purge protontricks, but when I type protontricks --gui in terminal, it still displays. Any solutions? Thanks.
EDIT: Fixed ...
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How to uninstall REMIX IDE completely from Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS? [duplicate]
I have installed REMIX IDE i.e. an ide for programming in Solidity programming language(widely used in Blockchain technology). I have installed it using it's official website. Now I want to uninstall ...
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Remove a package that I download from website [duplicate]
I wanted to install paraview 5.11 and lookup some tutorial (the tutorial is in 5.9) in yt. He downloaded [package] from the website and proceed to unpack it to /opt/paraview-5.11 and then he make use ...
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"Couldn't find any package by glob and regex" appear when reinstall an app [duplicate]
I'm new to Ubuntu and have installed an app on my device successfully. But I want to reinstall this app so that I uninstall it then reinstall. But when I reinstall, this error appear
I have uninstall ...
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After upgrading to 22.04LTS, GUI no longer works on chrome, totem.Nomacs "unable to create a GL context"
I was running 20.04LTS - I had started getting dependency errors, but upgrade to 22.04 which appeared to load (there were 2 or 3 warnings) did not work.
When I start various apps (chrome, VLC, nomacs) ...
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How to uninstall Intel Parallel Studio XE 2019 on Ubuntu 22.04?
I have Intel Parallel Studio XE 2019 Update 4 installed on my Ubuntu 22.04 system. I want to uninstall it completely. I installed it several years ago but didn't it use much. I did some internet ...
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Installed Chrome manually, now cant uninstall it
I installed Chrome manually, but now I can't find it anywhere but in the search box. I tried to install Chrome again, but it installed without any hesitation and if I try to uninstall Chrome, it only ...
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Remove an application in recommended apps
I am using Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS, , and I have this small bug but it is stressing me out how to fix it.
I installed ms office on my system using PlayOnLinux, but then I decided to uninstall it. When I ...
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Uninstall STM32CubeIDE
I downloaded and installed an older version of STM32CubeIde from this site a while ago. It is a dot DEB file version 1.5. How do I completely remove this software?
Ubuntu 20.04 is the OS used. Ubuntu ...
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Handbrake 1.51 stays in the system even after uninstall
I am trying to remove Handbrake completely after finding out I had two versions installed in my system. I succeeded at removing handbrake-jz, but the other one (version 1.51) won't uninstall.
I tried ...
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Unable to remove software from Ubuntu Software Centre
so I installed xArchiver from ubuntu software, but couldn't run it (some kind of scam the app is 500kb), then I wanted to uninstall it but couldn't, ubuntu software would give me an error saying no ...
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How to remove programms in /opt properly
I have removed programs that were installed in opt/... removed with rm -r {path}. But I get the problem from the installer that the program is already installed in /opt/....
My fear is that I have not ...
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Is there a way to add a "delete software" button upon right-click in the gnome app launcher?
The question is really in the title, but more specifically.. does anyone know of a extension (or any other way) that can add a possibility to delete a software within the app launcher?
As shown on ...
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How to get rid of skype completely and for good? GPG error [duplicate]
I got big problems with Skype application on ubuntu 22.04. There was a lot of bugs and I finally decided to remove this app and switch to web version. I uninstalled this but skype still hold to ...
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Can Python 3.9 be safely removed from Ubuntu 22.04?
Can Python 3.9 be safely removed from Ubuntu 22.04?
I want to move to Python 3.10 and I am short on storage on my laptop, therefore I would like to delete Python 3.9 along with its libraries. I think ...
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I have more than one copy of the same app installed. How do I remove one specifically?
Ubuntu 20.04. Today I was not able to get on Slack due to it's version reaching it's end of life.
I could not find a way to unistall it via command line due to the slack package not being found, nor ...
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how to uninstall pinta and all the certificates that came with it
I just installed pinta
$ sudo apt-get install pinta
and was surprised at how much other stuff came with it. In particular maybe 100 certificates.
Importing into legacy system store:
I already trust 0, ...
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Docker installation failed and has left a broken, irremovable apt package [duplicate]
Context: I'm using pop os 22.04
I have tried installing docker via the shell script download method:
$ sudo curl -sSL https://get.docker.com/ | sh
This failed with the message
# Executing docker ...
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How to remove all packages for a given architecture
How to remove all packages for a given architecture (i.e: i386, armhf, etc.)?
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Can't use Snake tool for Razer devices after installation
Need help to open Snake tool for Razer devices after installation.
I downloaded Snake tool for Razer devices in order to control my razer mice buttons using http://bithatch.co.uk/snake.html, but when ...
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Revert a make install due to installing PCL before VTK
I'm following the steps of a repository and to sample some dataset, PCL and VTK are needed. I had a lot of issues before regarding broken packages and had to delete and install again Ubuntu (18.04), ...
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Remove software - general way?
This is what my program center looks like. Tried to get JDownloder2 from different sources, because non was working. Still, none is.
I want to get rid of them again.
I come from Windows. Here, i go to ...
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How to remove Private Internet Access vpn servers from my network connection?
I have already done what the below two links say but still have these pia servers showing up in my system. How can I completely remove it.
Linux - Uninstalling the PIA App through the Terminal
remove ...
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I don't have the Ubuntu software center on 20.4
I'm trying to follow this instruction to install zoom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZYuKEQZr4k
but he shows ubuntu software center and I don't see it. Is it because I'm running it on macbookair m1 ...
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How do I uninstall Pterodactyl Panel?
I use this script
bash <(curl -s https://pterodactyl-installer.se)
from this website https://www.ghostcap.com/install-pterodactyl-panel/
and I want to just uninstall the entire script and every ...
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Ubuntu Software Application
When I try to remove an application from the Ubuntu Software application it tells me there is no packages to remove, but when I do dpk - l | grep it's still there. Will there be a fix for this soon, ...
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Remove Microsoft Teams from Ubuntu
Running Ubuntu 20.04. I installed Ms Teams a year ago for work and it worked fine. I have both MS Teams "insiders" and "preview" versions.
A few weeks ago, they stopped working. ...
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How to remove this Microsoft Office from my Ubuntu?
I installed them hoping they would work from a random website and now I'm stuck with them.
I'm unable to do it with apt/or snap remove.
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Can't remove mysql completely
I tried many times to completely remove MySQL from my system without success. I get these errors:
I also tried other commands without success. What should I do?
Here is the output of apt list --...
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Unable to uninstall skype on Ubuntu 20.04.2
I have skype installed and running at startup. I would like to remove it altogether. I've seen some advice online, but none of them work.
I can see several skypeforlinux processes running in the ...
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Not able to uninstall Java 17. Getting error related to dependency
I am new to ubuntu and using Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS. I had installed Java 17 recently but now I want to uninstall it but getting following dependency error. Please help me out:
dpkg-query -W -f='${binary:...
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I want to remove system app
Hello developers currently I'm using ubuntu 20.04 and i want to remove 2 system apps (software update and software & update) please tell me the package file name of these apps.
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Can't uninstall Edge
I have tried using:
sudo apt purge microsoft-edge-dev
sudo apt remove microsoft-edge-dev
sudo apt purge microsoft-edge
sudo apt remove microsoft-edge
But I get the errors Package microsoft-edge-dev ...
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uninstall openboard from Ubuntu 21.10
I have openboard showing on my list of favourites, which I would like to uninstall.
I have tried the following:
$ sudo apt remove openboard
[sudo] password for user1:
Reading package lists... Done
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I have installed MiPCSuite through Wine and uninstalled with UninstallMiPCSuite but icons are left in Menu
I have installed MiPCSuite through Wine and uninstalled with UninstallMiPCSuite but icons are left in Menu.
After launching icon it shows:
Failed to launch "MiPCSuit"
and sends me path to ...
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I purged the Libreoffice-writer app from the system. Why do i still see files with the name 'libreoffice' on my system?
So i just got rid of Libreoffice writer app from my system through the terminal with the purge command. To make sure i don't leave behind any files related to libre-office i also ran the autoremove ...
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Can't remove Signal-Desktop in Ubuntu 20.x
I Can't remove Signal-Desktop (https://signal.org/) in Ubuntu 20.x
The app was originally installed by using Signal official website installation instructions:
Linux (Debian-based) Install ...
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Firefox does not show in Ubuntu Software
I had trouble with Firefox and could not find it to uninstall it. Why don't I see it in Ubuntu Software? I added another FF and it shows in Ubuntu Software, but didn't solve my problem.
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How To Uninstall ProtonVPN
I installed ProtonVPN from the proton site. I can't for the life of me figure out how to remove the remaining pieces of the software. I've done the usual things:
Checked the ubuntu Store (not there)
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Uninstall MKUSB
So I installed a few weeks ago mkusb to make a persistent live USB and now I don't need it anymore. But I can't find a way to uninstall it, it's not in the "Ubuntu Software" app, it's like ...
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Ubuntu 21.04. 2 apps no longer working, uninstall and reinstall doesn’t fix
Ubuntu 21.04. Two of my apps are no longer working. VLC and Flameshot stopped working. I uninstalled, rebooted and reinstalled them multiple times using the ‘Ubuntu Software’ app. It says they’re both ...
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How to uninstall freefilesync from Ubuntu [closed]
I installed FreeFileSync for my Ubuntu 20.04 from here;
https://freefilesync.org/download.php
Installation was successful and the app is working. The problem is I can't remove FreeFileSync from my ...
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I have removed VirtualBox but I forgot to remove VirtualBox extensions & guest additions
I removed VirtualBox from Ubuntu 20.04.2 but I had forgot to remove the VirtualBox extensions & guest additions before removing the VirtualBox packages. I have deleted the virtual machine and also ...
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How do I remove alternate desktop environment software
I have used Ubuntu for a while a recently installed Lubuntu Desktop on top and gave it a shot. I quickly found out that I prefered the default GNOME Environment and uninstalled it through the terminal ...
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How to uninstall Uget from ubuntu 20.04LTS?
I was trying to use this software to download some classes, but now i dont need it anymore, and i was trying to remove, and i did:
sudo apt-get remove uget
But every time that i use ctrl+c to save the ...
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Unable to uninstall virtualenv on Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
$ sudo pip uninstall virtualenv
WARNING: Skipping virtualenv as it is not installed.
$ sudo pip3 uninstall virtualenv
WARNING: Skipping virtualenv as it is not installed.
$ sudo apt-get purge ...