How to cleanly uninstall programs?

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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

Is that the norm in ubuntu? How to cleanly uninstall programs?

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Dec 23 '13 at 12:25

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use purge

sudo apt-get purge <application name>

purge program to remove.

edited Dec 23 '13 at 12:25

Raja G

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answered Dec 23 '13 at 12:20

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 23 '13 at 12:27

I use

sudo apt-get autoremove --purge APP

This one purges the app with its configuration files, along with extra packages that are no longer necessary. As for the files in the home folder, you will have to delete those manually. I don't think there is a way to automatically remove them.

How to cleanly uninstall programs?

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