How can I delete conky from my system?

Question

I installed "conky" recently, but I'd like to unistall it now.
I tried:

sudo apt-get remove conky
sudo apt-get purge conky

After running these commands were, I can still run conky from the terminal.

How can I actually remove it?

How did you install conky ? I am guessing not with apt-get. What version of Ubuntu ? — Panther, Jul 21 '17 at 19:03
Download the source again, go into its directory, run './configurethen runsudo make uninstall` if you were lucky, it will work and uninstall it. — Ravexina, Jul 21 '17 at 19:12
If that does not work you will have to manually remove it by deleting the files it installed. In the future this is a reason to use apt, ie apt-get or package manager. — Panther, Jul 21 '17 at 19:21

score 5 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 23 '17 at 21:09

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Finally, I found a solution,

sudo apt-get --purge remove conky conky-all

Thanks for your efforts :)

edited Jul 23 '17 at 21:09

Zanna

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answered Jul 21 '17 at 19:58

solfish

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If this is the solution that worked for you, please accept it. You seem to have accepted an answer that is completely irrelevant. – terdon Jul 24 '17 at 08:29

Daniel Adamkovič · Answer 2 · 2017-07-21T19:41:37.177

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if those commands didn't work just install Synaptic Package Manager

sudo apt-get install synaptic.

It is a very useful tool for downloading, installing and removing packages I tried it on my conky and it worked like charm.

Edit: Edited this answer because I don't have enough reputation to join in the conversation bellow. There are multiple conky packages: conky, conky-all, conky-std. If you installed sudo apt-get install conky-all, then you can't uninstal just conky you have to run sudo apt-get purge conky-all, try that.

edited Jul 21 '17 at 19:41

answered Jul 21 '17 at 19:07

Daniel Adamkovič

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thanks but is there any way by using terminal? – solfish Jul 21 '17 at 19:09
Ah, got it it's actually named 'conky-std' so just run sudo apt-get purge cokny-std – Daniel Adamkovič Jul 21 '17 at 19:16
apt-get will not work, OP installed from source. – Panther Jul 21 '17 at 19:20
@bodhi.zazen apparently not, looking at the self-answer... When they said "source package" I think they meant "package from a source [where packages come from such as an apt repository]" – Zanna Jul 21 '17 at 20:41
@Zanna - Well the point is apt-get will not work if a package is installed outside of APT (apt-get or software center). The OP posted conflicting information so as long as you understand my point about installing packages outside of APT ;) FWIW I did NOT downvote this answer – Panther Jul 22 '17 at 19:04
@bodhi.zazen of course :) it was just a (probably overzealous) fyi, I was trying to clean up the whole page which is a bit of a mess now with accepted link-only answer and lots of confusing comments. Not sure what to do. By the way Daniel, you can always comment on your own posts regardless of reputation – Zanna Jul 22 '17 at 19:56
@Zanna Yeah, I know, but they were having conversation in the answer below which I couldn't join. – Daniel Adamkovič Jul 23 '17 at 21:03

How can I delete conky from my system?

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