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I installed eclipse using the installer from here. Then, I tried to remove everything using apt:

$ sudo apt autoremove eclipse*
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package 'eclipse' is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

I think it will not be completely removed if I just delete the eclipse folder from my /home directory. Is there any clean and easy way to remove it?

muru
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Hardian Lawi
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    What installer did you use? .tar.gz files are not like .deb. Unlike .deb files .tar.gz files have to be compiled first and then only they can be installed. Please see this: https://askubuntu.com/questions/25961/how-do-i-install-a-tar-gz-or-tar-bz2-file – Manish Kumar Bisht Oct 13 '17 at 02:51
  • @ManishKumarBisht The installer is inside the *.tar.gz file. It does not have any extension. If you click on the installer inside, an interface will appear for you to install the packages you want. – Hardian Lawi Oct 13 '17 at 03:31
  • As indicated by package manager, eclipse is not installed. Did the installation complete successfully? Have you used eclipse after the installation? – Manish Kumar Bisht Oct 13 '17 at 04:09
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    Search for it with dpkg -l eclipse, if there remove with dpkg -P <nameofpackage> else check inside that install folder for an uninstall script also without an extension. – George Udosen Oct 13 '17 at 05:21
  • @ManishKumarBisht Yep the installation is successful and I could launch it just fine. – Hardian Lawi Oct 13 '17 at 06:23
  • @George No packages found using dpkg -l eclipse. I couldn't find the uninstall script as well inside the folder. :( – Hardian Lawi Oct 13 '17 at 06:25

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It seems like you did not use apt-get or any specific package manager to install eclipse so your package managers know nothing about how to remove it.

So from my experience if you have installed it using the installer GUI WITHOUT running it as root, it will mainly create 2 directories in your home directory ~/eclipse and ~/.p2

Just delete these directories and you get back the space used by eclipse.

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