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James Newton
Asked: 2020-05-09 06:15:20 +0800 CST

Uninstall umake on Ubuntu 16.04

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On Ubuntu 16.04, I have umake installed at /usr/bin/umake. When I run umake --version it reports 

18.05

I just used snap install ubuntu-make --classic to install the latest version, and this is installed at /snap/bin/ubuntu-make.umake. When I run ubuntu-make.umake --version it reports

20.04+snap678

I had expected the newer version to overwrite the original and to create an alias for itself at /usr/bin/umake, but now I have two copies of umake in two different places. I have tried sudo apt remove umake, but this does nothing useful:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package umake

Sanity check: Does it make sense to remove the older version and to create a symbolic link for the newer version at usr/bin/umake? If so, how do I uninstall version 18.05?

uninstall ubuntu-make

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    umake is actually short for ubuntu-make. To remove that run

    sudo apt remove ubuntu-make

    For more, see ubuntu-make - Ubuntu Wiki.

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