How to completely uninstall Blender?

Question

I installed Blender 2.79, but I want to install Blender 2.80. How can I uninstall it?

Hello and Wellcome to askubuntu. Your question depens how you installed Blender. Can you please enter apt list blender* into your terminal and copy the output into your question? — Boba Fit, Dec 30 '18 at 09:18
How did you install Blender? It seems you dont have it from the Software Store, neither you downlaoded a .deb file. — Boba Fit, Dec 30 '18 at 09:43
$ tar -xjf blender--x86_64.tar.bz2 $ sudo mkdir /opt/blender $ sudo cp -r blender--x86_64/* /opt/blender — Egg Nuclear, Dec 30 '18 at 09:55

ricitron · Answer 1 · 2018-12-30T10:00:55.500

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If you installed from snap, run:

sudo snap remove blender

If you installed from PPA, run:

sudo apt-get remove --autoremove blender

Edit: if you installed in /opt as you describe, run:

sudo rm -rf /opt/blender

When you install 2.8, you may wish to install with a package manager so it automatically updates:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:thomas-schiex/blender
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install blender

edited Dec 30 '18 at 10:00

answered Dec 30 '18 at 09:20

ricitron

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I seem to have installed it in opt – Egg Nuclear Dec 30 '18 at 09:41

Boba Fit · Answer 2 · 2018-12-30T10:17:33.980

If you installed Blender like that:

tar -xjf blender--x86_64.tar.bz2
sudo mkdir /opt/blender
sudo cp -r blender--x86_64/* /opt/blender

Then you can just move the old version into an other directory:

sudo mv /opt/blender ~/blender_279

Then you can install the beta version via snap, so you get automatically the newest blender versions:

sudo snap install blender --beta

If you want to download and install blender by hand, you can still use your old method and download the new one: https://builder.blender.org/download/ and repeat the installation (extraction and copy the files to /opt/blender)

How to completely uninstall Blender?

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