Uninstalling Skype 4.1 from 12.10

Question

I want to completely uninstall Skype 4.1 from the terminal. How do I do that. Also, do I have to delete anything else to make sure I have removed it completely?

Answer 1

From the terminal, run:

sudo apt-get purge skype*
sudo apt-get autoremove

Then you can remove the config files:

rm -fr ~/.Skype

That should do it.

Answer 2

I tried

sudo apt-get purge skype*
sudo apt-get autoremove

rm -fr ~/.Skype

Nothing worked, only this did

sudo dpkg -r skype:i386

Answer 3

Yo can try also this:

wget -O skype http://download.skype.com/linux/skype-ubuntu_4.0.0.8-1_i386.deb 
sudo apt-get install libxss1
sudo dpkg -i skype
sudo apt-get -f install && sudo rm skype

This might work.

Answer 4

This did for me

sudo apt-get purge skype-bin

Answer 5

Run:

sudo apt-get remove skype skype-bin