Questions about uninstalling Ubuntu from a computer.
"Uninstall" means to remove something that you had installed on your computer.
Questions tagged [uninstall]
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How can I uninstall software?
Seeing there are various ways to install on Ubuntu. What are the various ways to uninstall items?
Which ways always work? How can I be sure something was uninstalled?
myusuf3
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How to uninstall teamviewer deb v10.0.036281 from ubuntu 14.04
I installed teamviewer deb v10.0.036281 which is a 32bit?64bit Multi architecture one, it didn't worked well, so I tried to uninstall by using sudo apt-get remove teamv but got this reply
E: Unable to locate package teamv
am having Ubuntu 14.04…
Nakul Spike
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How to uninstall Nomachine
I want to remove 'NOMACHINE' from my computer, but I can't see it in software manage. I tried to delete the files but, some are locked.
How should I proceed?
Viorel Dragos
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Uninstalling Go (golang)
I'm trying to install drive, which requires Go.
I did:
sudo apt-get install golang git mercurial
which successfully installed version 1.2.1. Unfortunately, when I tried to install drive with:
go get -u github.com/odeke-em/drive/cmd/drive
I…
yroc
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re-install R in ubuntu
I have messed up R's Makeconf file.
I tried:
sudo apt-get --purge remove r-base
sudo apt-get --purge remove r-base-dev
--I got R in the first place by doing:
sudo apt-get install r-base
sudo apt-get install r-base-dev
but when I type
R
R still…
user2413
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How do I uninstall Ubuntu from a computer?
By just typing some commands, how can Ubuntu be uninstalled? I don't want to install Windows or anything, leaving my PC without an OS.
Would this command work?
sudo rm -rf /
mayank agarwal
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Removing GRUB from windows system after uninstalling Ubuntu from Windows 7
I have installed Ubuntu alongside Windows 7 (no separate partitions, I selected inside windows option).
I want to uninstall Ubuntu but last time I tried it and the Ubuntu is released but the GRUB remains. How do I remove GRUB?
Sudeep Shakya
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How to remove SoapUI?
I've installed SoapUI by downloading it from its website (http://www.soapui.org/), but I would now like to uninstall it. However, it installed using its own little installer so I don't know what/where it added. Is there an elegant way to remove it…
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Can I uninstall Caribou without messing up Gnome?
I just installed the Gnome Tweak Tool in order to change my icon theme to Faenza, but it seems to have installed some other program named Caribou, which I think is an onscreen keyboard program, with it. This is absolutely useless for me, and…
Icedrake
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List of safe to remove applications
I would like to ask if there is any list of pre-installed applications in Ubuntu which are safe to remove.
Once, I tried to uninstall unnecessary applications from Software center, but it created some bugs. For example, I lost some icons from System…
tomsk
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How to uninstall mathematica 9 from Ubuntu?
I'd like to know how can I uninstall Mathematica from Ubuntu.
apt-get remove does not work.
vhbsouza
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How do I uninstall Kubuntu and install Ubuntu?
I want to uninstall Kubuntu and install Ubuntu, but I want to completely clear former installation first. How do I do it most unharmfully?
Dan Ganiev
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What is the *real* package name of Librevault
Just installed Librevault file sharing program from Ubuntu Software and decided that I don't like it. Want to uninstall it completely.
But dpkg --list does not find 'librevault". Does anyone know the real name of this invasive program?
ve3oat
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Completely Uninstall Spideroak
I tried to remove Spideroak with autoremove command. But I still have the Spideroak Hive. Can somebody help me, how to remove Spideroak completely. Thanks
herry susanto
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Accidently installed two versions of swi-prolog, need help to fix it
Alright, I have this problem where I installed two different versions of swi-prolog.
I manually installed swi-prolog (swipl) version 5.10.4 from a tar-file, which I see now is a stupid thing. (I can't remember why I did this exactly, but that is…
PJvG
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