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I wanted to remove "Amazon" from my 14.04 and tried to follow the instructions given here:

However, even after logging off and loggin back in, I see that I get the updates to "Amazon":

amazon updates

"Online search results" have been disabled in Security and Privacy settings. I even tried to remove it from the software center by using the button provided in the above question which says there is no package named unity-lens-shopping. And if I again try to remove unity-lens-shopping from the terminal using sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping, unity-lens-home is selected and nothing is actually removed and I get the following output:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'unity-scope-home' instead of 'unity-lens-shopping'
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 29 not upgraded.

I just ignore the 29 packages to be upgraded, for now, should be unrelated(?)

Trying to remove unity-lens-home I get a E: Unable to locate package unity-lens-home error.

How do I completely remove the shopping app from 14.04 to stop receiving updates for this application?

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  • Try to remove unity-scope-home by running sudo apt-get remove unity-scope-home – Avinash Raj Apr 19 '14 at 08:02
  • @AvinashRaj: Edited my answer to reflect that. – jobin Apr 19 '14 at 08:11
  • it's unity-scope-home not unity-lens-home – Avinash Raj Apr 19 '14 at 08:12
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    @AvinashRaj: It says that would remove ubuntu-desktop, unity, unity-scope-home from the system. – jobin Apr 19 '14 at 08:14
  • Maybe you're tired of this topic, but, this question is not a duplicate. They say they already tried the instructions in http://askubuntu.com/questions/192269/how-can-i-remove-amazon-search-results-from-the-dash-or-disable-the-feature. Also I can confirm it doesn't work in 14.04. I see the same issue attempting to remove unity-scope-home. – Greg Hendershott Apr 28 '15 at 04:15
  • I don't think this is a duplicate. If it is, there needs to be a link to a different article than the one pointed to now. That link is outdated and doesn't help with this issue in 15.10. – labyrinth Nov 03 '15 at 22:02
  • The correct answer, given below, isn't provided as an answer in the other question (only as a comment), so this won't be a duplicate once the title is made more specific. – Reinier Post Apr 03 '17 at 17:10

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It seems I need to remove unity-webapps-common to remove the shopping lens, including amazon.

To remove unity-webapps-common, open the Software center and type "Amazon" and remove the application with the Amazon logo as the application icon or open a terminal using Ctrl+Alt+t and type:

sudo apt-get remove unity-webapps-common
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    It looks like there are good reasons not to do it, see https://askubuntu.com/questions/214755/how-can-i-remove-unity-web-apps – Arch Stanton Dec 01 '15 at 22:48
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The following command worked on my computer.

sudo apt-get purge unity-lens-shopping

if it doesn't work,

sudo apt-get purge unity-webapps-common
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