I had installed VIM but it has been messed up and breaking up due to some plugins. So I removed it with: sudo apt-get remove vim . But there is still vim command available. I also tried sudo apt-get purge vim & sudo apt-get remove vim-*.
Below output for more information:
$whereis vim
vim: /usr/local/bin/vim /usr/share/vim
How can I uninstall them?
I have one more question: Can we know which package is responsible for the installation of a particular binary file? Is there any reverse-search for binary files?
System: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS (focal)
/usr/local. That was probably installed from source. Your secondary question is answered here: https://askubuntu.com/a/482/158442 – muru Dec 12 '20 at 07:44dpkg -S /usr/share/vimwill show which package (if any) provides/usr/share/vim. – waltinator Dec 12 '20 at 19:34