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Adam
Asked: 2020-05-28 09:33:03 +0800 CST

Can't Uninstall "asciidoc" Package

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I was building from source a package which needed asciidoc on Ubuntu 19.10. Now I want to uninstall it but I get the following

Package 'asciidoc' is not installed, so not removed

while it is clearly installed. Why is that happening? How can I uninstall it?

uninstall 19.10 asciidoc

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    The main asciidoc executable in 18.04 LTS and newer versions is located in asciidoc-base package.

    You have to remove it:

    sudo apt-get purge asciidoc-base
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  2. For source code installations, here are the install/uninstall commands...

    Installing asciidoc for all users

    Create configure using autoconf(1); use configure to create the Makefile; run make(1); build the man pages; install:

    $ autoconf
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

    To uninstall:

    $ sudo make uninstall

    Source: http://asciidoc.org/INSTALL.html

    Update #1

    For binary installations...

    dpkg -l *ascii* | grep ii

un asciidoc <none> <none> (no description available) 
ii asciidoc-base 8.6.10-3 all Minimal version of asciidoc not suitable for pdf 
ii asciidoc-common 8.6.10-3 all Basic data and configuration files for asciidoc un asciidoc-doc <none> <none> (no description available)

    To completely uninstall asciidoc, you'll need to run all of these commands...

    sudo apt-get purge asciidoc # already done

sudo apt-get purge asciidoc-base

sudo apt-get purge asciidoc-common
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