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Questions tagged [software-uninstall]

for questions about uninstalling software on Ubuntu.

"Uninstall" means to remove something that you had installed on your computer.

This tag is used for questions dealing with uninstalling system- or user-installed software.

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How do I uninstall MySQL?

I installed MySQL using sudo apt-get. Now I need to remove it from my system. How can I do that?
batman
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How to uninstall LibreOffice?

Which package should I remove to completely remove libreoffice? I have no need for office tools. That's the one gripe I have with package managers like apt, there's no simple way to perform the essential task of removing unwanted software :S
lapin
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How to remove snap from Ubuntu?

How do I remove snap? apt pretends it's not there, but I can still call commands with it. Trying to remove it says read only file system # apt remove snap Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information...…
quantumpotato
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What is gdm3, kdm, lightdm? How to install and remove them?

What is gdm3, kdm, lightdm? How to install and remove and repair them? Can anyone explain in details?
Shateel
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How to uninstall VMware Player?

I want to uninstall VMware Player on my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS system. How should I uninstall it?
Fanoy
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How to easily remove old kernels in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS?

I have old Linux kernel versions that I don't use so I was trying to remove them. List of installed kernels from dpkg --list | grep linux-image linux-image-5.4.0-26-generic (5.4.0-26.30) linux-image-5.4.0-33-generic…
MeHeDi HaSaN
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How can I completely remove Ruby + Rails + Gems?

I have messed up my Ruby dev environment on Ubuntu 10.04. What is the best possible way to remove these packages from my system? Ruby All Gems RubyGems To start fresh, I would like to re-install Ruby using RVM.
zengr
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How can I remove compiled kernel?

I installed 14.10 on my laptop Lenovo E455. And compiled kernel 3.19 with following order since it seemed that 14.10 doesn't want to work with mine.(I saw slow motions) Downloaded current kernel from http://www.kernel.org/ make oldconfig make sudo…
HYU
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How to remove Telegram?

I have installed the official version of Telegram, but now I cannot remove it. I have tried apt remove telegram and other methods, is there any trick to remove it completely?
Bassam M. Mardini
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How do I remove Brave completely?

Some time ago I installed Brave but I didn't like it, so I removed it with sudo apt-get remove --purge brave-browser. After some time I had to reinstall it because I needed a Chromium-based browser. As soon as I opened it it asked be to redeem my…
Ntakwetet
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Installing latest version of GNU Octave when I have already installed other version

I have installed Gnu Octave by using apt-get install octave. This installed version 4.0.3 on my machine. I want to install the latest available version. How can I: Uninstall the version I have? Install the latest version?
saidaspen
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Remove Zsh from Ubuntu 16.04

I installed zsh, but I realized I miss the basic/default terminal look. How can I get back to the default shell?
Stefan
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I can't use "remove" to uninstall xtreme download manager

I downloaded xtreme download manager from its website. The archive I downloaded was xdm-setup-x64.tar.xz With the setup comes a readme.txt file, I followed it to install. Now I want to uninstall the xtreme download manager but sudo apt-get remove…
David Moura
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How to uninstall OpenCV 2.4.9 completely from Ubuntu?

I want to integrate OpenCV with qt creator and for that OpenCV 3.0 is required. I have OpenCV 2.4.9 already installed and want to uninstall it completely as it is causing problems in some functions. I would also like to know whether OpenCV 3.0 can…
Naman Sogani
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How can I completely uninstall mongodb 2.6.3?

I am running the following command: sudo apt-get remove mongodb And it's giving this output: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package 'mongodb' is not installed, so not removed 0…
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