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Asked: 2019-08-20 01:42:45 +0800 CST

Remove CodeBlocks and know file path

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I had installed the code block earlier, Now I want to remove it and shift to IDE (recommendation are welcome, specially c/c++) but through the terminal

"Package 'codeblocks' is not installed, so not removed"

and in ubuntu software, no software present as named codeblocks but I can see codeblocks in the application manager, I also tried to find the file through the file manager didn't get success. image showing codeblocks in application manager

As told @N0rbert in comment which codeblocks command output:

/usr/local/bin/codeblocks
software-recommendation gnome-terminal software-sources code-blocks

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    It seems that you have compiled CodeBlocks previously in somewhere (for example in ~/Downloads/codeblocks...) and then installed with make install to the /usr/local.

    If you can find this location, then use sudo make uninstall from this directory.

    If you can not find this location - then situation is some-kind of worse.
    You can try to move executable and its desktop-file with commands below:

    sudo chmod -x /usr/local/bin/codeblocks
sudo mv /usr/local/share/applications/codeblocks*.desktop /usr/local/

    and forget about the CodeBlocks :)

    About alternatives - I'll highly recommend to try KDevelop. You can install it with

    sudo apt-get install kdevelop
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