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I installed eclipse using the installer from here. Then, I tried to remove everything using apt:

$ sudo apt autoremove eclipse*
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package 'eclipse' is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

I think it will not be completely removed if I just delete the eclipse folder from my /home directory. Is there any clean and easy way to remove it?

muru
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Hardian Lawi
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It seems like you did not use apt-get or any specific package manager to install eclipse so your package managers know nothing about how to remove it.

So from my experience if you have installed it using the installer GUI WITHOUT running it as root, it will mainly create 2 directories in your home directory ~/eclipse and ~/.p2

Just delete these directories and you get back the space used by eclipse.

demon36
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