How to remove "Amazon"?

Question

I wanted to remove "Amazon" from my 14.04 and tried to follow the instructions given here:

• How can I remove Amazon search results from the dash or disable the feature?

However, even after logging off and loggin back in, I see that I get the updates to "Amazon":

"Online search results" have been disabled in Security and Privacy settings. I even tried to remove it from the software center by using the button provided in the above question which says there is no package named unity-lens-shopping. And if I again try to remove unity-lens-shopping from the terminal using sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping, unity-lens-home is selected and nothing is actually removed and I get the following output:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'unity-scope-home' instead of 'unity-lens-shopping'
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 29 not upgraded.

_{I just ignore the 29 packages to be upgraded, for now, should be unrelated(?)}

Trying to remove unity-lens-home I get a E: Unable to locate package unity-lens-home error.

How do I completely remove the shopping app from 14.04 to stop receiving updates for this application?

Answer 1

It seems I need to remove unity-webapps-common to remove the shopping lens, including amazon.

To remove unity-webapps-common, open the Software center and type "Amazon" and remove the application with the Amazon logo as the application icon or open a terminal using Ctrl+Alt+t and type:

sudo apt-get remove unity-webapps-common

Answer 2

The following command worked on my computer.

sudo apt-get purge unity-lens-shopping

if it doesn't work,

sudo apt-get purge unity-webapps-common