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I have gone through the Dist Usage Utility in Ubuntu and I deleted some folders here and there in my Desktop and also in my Downloads. These included some software packages I had installed earlier.......

I am not very sure whether all the installation points related to these softwares have been cleaned after I have deleted the folders in the Desktop.

Windows ofcourse we have an uninstall utility. But since I dint know a similar way in Ubuntu I just deleted the folders. Is here any command that I can run now to fully scan and remove softwares and packages that have not been properly installed or UNINSTALLED???

Shabirmean
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From what you write, I think you did not actually deinstall or break any installed packages.
in case you did indeed, sudo debsums -c will help you to find the changes - see What is the apt equivalent to "rpm -V" (Verify installed packages).


But it sounds like you may have installed programs by building it from source, maybe under your home directory?

If so, there may be an uninstall command provided, like make uninstall.

If you installed something with make install or similar, but there is no make uninstall available, you need to find out which files were installed, and into which directories they were installed.
In simple cases this can be seen from the Makefile. But if that does not help, you can just run make install again - only to see the log output of which files are installed to where.


For future use, take a look at checkinstall - it can track what was installed from source, and cleanly uninstall it.

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Volker Siegel
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I have two options for you. Either Graphical or command-line Graphical Way: Install Synaptic manager and cleanup your System. to install it run 

 sudo apt-get install synaptic

or you could try this command from terminal

 sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -f install

to update and attempt to fix your packages. But i recommend you install synaptic and you can find more on this.. askubuntu post

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