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Niranjan
Asked: 2019-01-04 20:36:11 +0800 CST

Removing rstudio and its user from the system

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I installed rstudio on my system, but I don't need it now. It has created its own user. Whenever I turn my system on, two users appear on the screen. This has happened only after installing rstudio. I don't want rstudio and its user as well.

I successfully uninstalled rstudio by sudo apt-get purge rstudio.

Still the login page is showing two users. Then I logged in to the second "rstudio" user and opened its terminal.

When I used deluser command there, I got this error.

rstudio@ubuntu-Vostro-15-3568:~$ sudo deluser rstudio is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.

Please help me to delete this user.

sudo rstudio

2 Answers

  1. Use sudo apt-get purge r-base.
    This works like apt remove but also deletes configuration files.

    After that, issue the following commands:
    sudo deluser --remove-all-files rstudio
    sudo deluser --group --remove-all-files rstudio
    This will remove the system user created by the installer, which is not automatically removed by the uninstaller.

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  2. Thank you so much everyone for your efforts. I was putting username when I was asked for user. I checked the command that I used to add the user. ie. sudo adduser rstudio As I was putting the user"name" in the command, it wasn't working. I simply used sudo deluser rstudio and I got this!

    Removing user 'rstudio' ... Warning: group 'rstudio' has no more members. Done.

    Now everything is fine. :)

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