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enter image description herei don't remember how i installed Signal desktop. i think i did it with ubuntu software. the version is v1.39.6 so i removed it with all the ways i know

  • as if installed w/snap but it says here that the package does not exit

sudo snap remove signal-desktop

  • as if installed with ubuntu software, going there and looking for it (did not find it) or using the favs or doing some console typing:

sudo apt-get purge signal-desktop sudo apt remove signal-desktop sudo apt remove signal-desktop

result: nada, nothing. still there nagging me. i can find it in this folder:

/home/my_name/.config/Signal

to answer a question by user535733, the folder contains: clementine, brave,chromium, blender...

i can run the app and identifying it with ps ef it gives

3543 tty2 SLl+ 0:05 | \_ /app/Signal/signal-desktop the app is effectively running. no error message. the only thing is that it's trying to reconnect to my account unsuccessfully.

which signal-desktop does not yield anything

whereis signal-desktop gives signal desktop

running locateyields:

/home/user/.cache/gnome-software/odrs/io.snapcraft.signal-desktop-r4LxMVp7zWramXsJQAKdamxy6TAWlaDD.json

/home/user/.cache/gnome-software/screenshots/112x63/6f99df3ba355beacae962ce195d796e30327a7d05fbced571be96a443b5bed3e-signal-desktop-screenshot.png

/home/user/.cache/gnome-software/screenshots/752x423/6f99df3ba355beacae962ce195d796e30327a7d05fbced571be96a443b5bed3e-signal-desktop-screenshot.png

/home/user/.local/share/Trash/files/signal-desktop

/home/user/.local/share/Trash/files/signal-desktop/current

/home/user/.local/share/Trash/info/signal-desktop.trashinfo

/var/lib/flatpak/app/org.signal.Signal/x86_64/stable/a25dbb6a0dea0943848a5fe8f3e1b1b8273480bad5c597175af96297dea8abd7/files/Signal/signal-desktop

/var/lib/flatpak/app/org.signal.Signal/x86_64/stable /a25dbb6a0dea0943848a5fe8f3e1b1b8273480bad5c597175af96297dea8abd7/files/share/doc/signal-desktop

/var/lib/flatpak/app/org.signal.Signal/x86_64/stable/a25dbb6a0dea0943848a5fe8f3e1b1b8273480bad5c597175af96297dea8abd7/files/share/doc/signal-desktop/changelog.gz

/var/lib/snapd/sequence/signal-desktop.json

following through i did flatpak list and it yielded some files but not any signal or signal-desktop ones

still, i did flatpak uninstall --delete-data signal-desktop this gave an error message but flatpak uninstall --delete-data signal yields

Found installed ref ‘app/org.signal.Signal/x86_64/stable’ (system). Is this correct? [Y/n]:

now, i'm as doubtful as a christian scientist with appendicitis.

thank you for any help.

Johnny Bravo
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  • @user535733: like i said, i think i used the ubuntu software thingy. trouble is it doesn't allow me to remove signal-desktop. just to install it. – Johnny Bravo Jan 08 '23 at 09:36
  • Your output of which and whereis suggests that you have no application called signal-desktop installed on any of your $PATH directories anywhere on your system. Maybe it's using a different name. Maybe it's in a different directory. Or maybe it's not there at all. Lots of possibilities. – user535733 Jan 09 '23 at 19:52
  • "i see it in my favs" does not clearly explain what you are looking at, or what your "favs" might be. Recall that we are not in the room with you. We cannot see what you are seeing. it's up to you to provide that clarity in your question. – user535733 Jan 11 '23 at 14:17
  • here's all the clarity in the world, a screenshot. that shows that in my applications there is the infamous signal desktop. IT IS THERE. no sweat. the fact that which and whereis commands don't appear to give a path to the app doesn't preclude the fact that IT IS THERE. – Johnny Bravo Jan 11 '23 at 18:17
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    Start by finding the location of the relevant .desktop file. See https://askubuntu.com/questions/1160737/how-to-find-desktop-file-location-for-a-particular-application for how to do that. – user535733 Jan 13 '23 at 00:46
  • done. i hesitate to proceed because of the answer. what should i do? do i remove it? is it really the signal desktop? – Johnny Bravo Jan 16 '23 at 13:04
  • Your output seems to show that you installed signal-desktop from a flatpak. Try using flatpak tools to remove it. – user535733 Jan 16 '23 at 15:13

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the app was installed through flatpak

i did a search to confirm this by flatpak search signal

simply doing: flatpak uninstall --delete-data org.signal.Signal, did it

bottom line: when you don't know how you installed a package you run into some hassle.

just list all the possible ways it can be installed by listing the ways a package can be installed. many thanks to user535733

Johnny Bravo
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  • THANK YOU. I also found the /app/Signal/signal-desktop via the pid, which was a non-existent path, and it was so baffling. – MalcolmOcean Mar 16 '23 at 22:43