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I've tried using

sudo apt-get remove amazon

and the result was sudo-apt-get: command not found

and I tried 

sudo apt-get remove amazon*

and I got

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'unity-webapps-amazoncloudreader' for regex 'amazon*'
Note, selecting 'ruby-amazon-ec2' for regex 'amazon*'
Note, selecting 'libnet-amazon-s3-tools-perl' for regex 'amazon*'
Note, selecting 'unity-webapps-amazon' for regex 'amazon*'
Note, selecting 'libnet-amazon-ec2-perl' for regex 'amazon*'
Note, selecting 'gamazons' for regex 'amazon*'
Note, selecting 'libnet-amazon-perl' for regex 'amazon*'
Note, selecting 'libamazon-sqs-simple-perl' for regex 'amazon*'
Note, selecting 'libnet-amazon-s3-perl' for regex 'amazon*'
Note, selecting 'flight-of-the-amazon-queen' for regex 'amazon*'
Note, selecting 'gmpc-plugin-coveramazon' for regex 'amazon*'
Package 'unity-webapps-amazon' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'gmpc-plugin-coveramazon' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'flight-of-the-amazon-queen' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'gamazons' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'libamazon-sqs-simple-perl' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'libnet-amazon-ec2-perl' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'libnet-amazon-perl' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'libnet-amazon-s3-perl' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'libnet-amazon-s3-tools-perl' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'ruby-amazon-ec2' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'unity-webapps-amazoncloudreader' is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 18 not upgraded.

How can I remove this amazon application that was installed by default?

Videonauth
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Alucard DeRosier
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2 Answers2

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Try this:

sudo apt-get remove unity-webapps-common
muru
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Saikat Kundu
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Why this throws errors

sudo-apt-get remove amazon

The problem here is multiple

  • its sudo apt-get remove PACKAGENAME not sudo-apt get PACKAGENAME
  • You are guessing PACKAGENAMES (amazon) here

How to locate package names and remove them

I would recommend to check what packagename you need to remove first and then remove it.

You could filter all installed packagenames for the string amazon first like this

sudo dpkg -l | grep amazon

This should output all installed package-names containing the string amazon.

Then - if you know which packagename you want to remove do as follows

sudo apt-get remove PACKAGENAME

or 

sudo apt remove PACKAGENAME

As @Saikat Kundu mentioned already - the packagename you are looking in this particular case is unity-webapps-common.

Hope this helps understanding apt

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