How do I uninstall Cinnamon?

Question

So I installed the cinnamon desktop environment on Ubuntu 12.10 but now I want to uninstall it. What would the command line(s) be to uninstall it?

possible duplicate of How do I remove Cinnamon? – Ringtail Nov 23 '12 at 16:40 — Ringtail, Nov 23 '12 at 16:40

score 13 · Answer 1 · edited Jan 28 '13 at 02:55

13

I remember something like that

sudo apt-get purge cinnamon

edited Jan 28 '13 at 02:55

Seth

58,122

answered Nov 13 '12 at 20:42

score 8 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 23 '13 at 06:54

8

In my case, I uninstalled it by the command mentioned by Enes. But I was still getting notification for updating Cinnamon.

I solved it by using these two commands:

sudo apt-get purge cinnamon
...
sudo apt-get autoremove

answered Nov 23 '13 at 06:54

Mostafa Ahangarha

4,408

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 23 '13 at 07:02

In order to remove cinnamon and all the related packages the PPA installed you need first to install PPA-purge: disables a PPA and reverts to official packages.

sudo apt-get install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:gwendal-lebihan-dev/cinnamon-stable

You can see a little example of how to use PPA-purge http://www.webupd8.org/2009/12/remove-ppa-repositories-via-command.html

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 16 '22 at 11:12

0

sudo apt-get purge cinnamon --autoremove

answered Mar 16 '22 at 11:12

null

1

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Mar 24 '23 at 06:27

First, check what is going to be removed

sudo dpkg -l | grep .cinnamon.

If you are ok with it, run this command

sudo apt autoremove --purge cinnamon*

Command explanation

# dpkg -l       lists all installed packages
# grep .cinnamon.   filters, so that only packages with keyword cinnamon within their names, listed
# purge         removes mentioned package
# autoremove    tries to remove dependency packages

How do I uninstall Cinnamon?

5 Answers5

First, check what is going to be removed

If you are ok with it, run this command

Command explanation

Linked