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sam islam
Asked: 2019-06-10 00:40:49 +0800 CST

are there any way to find the true package which I want to uninstall on Ubuntu?

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Uninstalling using the method:

dpkg --list
sudo apt-get remove “package-name”
sudo apt-get purge “package-name”
sudo apt-get autoremove

is a beautiful way, but the problem is in searching for the package which I really need to uninstall inside all of this long dpkg --list , and this is not the fatigue, you will get enough fatigue when looking for the true name of the true package which you want to remove.

-are there any way much easier than this? -are there any software like Iobit uninstaller which is on Windows? mean: software for uninstalling programs on Ubuntu? -are there any way to get the true name of the package which we want to remove?

package-management uninstall

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You could ask the packaging system. For example, if I wanted to uninstall the bluefish program, I would do:

    walt@fox:~(0)$ type bluefish
bluefish is /usr/bin/bluefish
walt@fox:~(0)$ dpkg -S $(type -p !$)
dpkg -S $(type -p bluefish)
bluefish: /usr/bin/bluefish
walt@fox:~(0)$

    In this case, the /usr/bin/bluefish binary is in the bluefish package.

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  2. It's much less fatiguing to use a GUI application that permits you to keyword search and scroll so that you can view groups of packages containing the same keyword together, all of which are marked by a green filled checkbox if they are installed. Try searching for libreoffice in synaptic and you will see that there are many libreoffice packages in many different languages, but only the LibreOffice packages that are installed have a green filled checkbox. You can also narrow the search by categories such as Installed or Installed (local or obsolete) as marked by the mouse cursor in the left pane of the below screenshot.

    Synaptic Package Manager

    To install Synaptic in all currently supported versions of Ubuntu, open the terminal and type:

    sudo apt install synaptic

    To open Synaptic from the terminal type:

    pkexec synaptic

    You will be asked to authenticate with your user password in order to launch Synaptic.

    This works most of the time if the package name is similar to its application name. If it isn't try this answer.

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