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I installed Wireshark but in the end I didn't use it and wanted to remove it. I installed it from Software center so I tried removing it from there and it didn't work, when I hit remove it just asks for password and for brief moment "removing" appears and just throws back to buttons to remove and launch. I then tried what was suggested in this question How to remove Wireshark from my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS? and bloody thing is still here.

Now when I run sudo apt-get remove wireshark it says it is not installed and yet I am able to open it, it is also present on list of installed software in Software center.

How do I remove it?

Black Cloud
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Have you tried sudo apt autoremove as suggested in the linked answer to remove packages that are not dependent on by others?

The wireshark package is a meta-package. It depends on wireshark-qt (or wireshark-gtk). If you remove a meta-package, it will not automatically remove dependent packages such as wireshark-qt. The latter packages include the GUI and tools such as tshark which is likely how you observed that the "Wireshark" program is not removed even though the wireshark package was removed.

If sudo apt autoremove still did not remove the Wireshark packages, try sudo apt purge wireshark-qt wireshark-gtk, optionally followed by another sudo apt --purge autoremove. The --purge option ensures that configuration files are removed as well.

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    sudo apt purge wireshark-qt wireshark-gtk has done the job, I still don't understand what was the issue so it refused to remove it. – Black Cloud Aug 23 '19 at 00:14