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I am new to Ubuntu and was excited by the freedom it gives. So I installed a lot of themes and a lot of icons.

Now I want to get rid of them. And I don't know where are they installed. In Windows, I usually knew where a particular thing is installed. And it had been easy to uninstall things.

I am not aware of where things go after installation. Deleting the folder that I unzipped and then run install.sh from, do not remove it. In which folder do I look at these things?

The same thing goes with software, once I install it. Removing the downloaded folder doesn't remove the software. My guess is that there is some place fixed where things go once I install them using the terminal as we don't specify their location in the terminal. What this location is?

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Installed using the installation script provided by the theme

It depends on the installation script (e.g. the install.sh file) to where the files would be copied. Open the script with a text-editor and examine its content to find out. Usual directories are:

  • Themes

    • /usr/share/themes/ (for a theme installed system-wide, i.e. with sudo)
    • ~/.themes/
    • ~/.local/share/themes/

  • Icons

    • /usr/share/icons/ (for an icon pack installed system-wide, i.e. with sudo)
    • ~/.icons/
    • ~/.local/share/icons/

Installed using apt-get

You can remove them by simply running

sudo apt-get remove <theme-package-name>
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