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Asked: 2024-09-30 03:48:54 +0800 CST

Can't Delete Yubikey Manager

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I've tried all kinds of things and the Yubikey Manager still shows up in my launcher.

I've tried sudo apt-get autoremove yubikey-manager

I've tried uninstalled from software manager.

It's still in the launcher. The manager never discovered my key, so I just want to delete it.

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  1. Best Answer

    GUI

    A convenient option to uninstall using the GUI is to run Software Center or Application Center, find the application by name and if it is marked as installed, uninstall it.

    CLI

    The method of uninstallation depends very much on the way the application was installed. Some of typical options are:

    1. Installing using the apt command and the repository, or from a local deb file
    2. Snap installation
    3. Flatpak installation
    4. AppImage installation
    5. Install from a tar, tar.gz or tgz file

    Survey before uninstallation

    The first three types are relatively easy to identify using the following commands. They are arranged to match installation type from 1. to 3.

    dpkg -l | grep -i yubi
sudo snap list | grep -i yubi
sudo flatpak list | grep -i yubi

    A successful finding is indicated by a non-empty output of the grep command, which is always listed at the end of the search command.

    The output contains the name of the installed package or snap, e.g. <package_name>

    A query using dpkg sometimes generates installation candidate notifications (rc) instead of the installed package (ii). The characters ii or rc appear right at the beginning of the line. The rc characters indicate that the package is NOT installed locally.

    Ways to uninstall

    Type 1, DEB package

    sudo dpkg -r <package_name>

    Type 2, Snap package

    sudo snap remove <package_name>

    Type 3, Flatpak package

    sudo flatpak uninstall <package_name>

    Note that in this third case the package name must contain the full identifier, as shown in the response of command sudo flatpak list | grep -i yubi in the Application ID column.

    For example, for Yubico Authenticator, the Flatpak identifier is a string of characters com.yubico.yubioath and an example of uninstalling is:

    sudo flatpak uninstall com.yubico.yubioath

    Type 4, AppImage

    Search for AppImage file

    sudo find / -iname "*yubikey-manager*"

    Remove file

    sudo rm /path/to/file/filename.AppImage

    Real file name is e.g. yubikey-manager-qt-1.2.5-linux.AppImage

    For more detail see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43680226/how-do-i-uninstall-a-program-installed-with-the-appimage-launcher

    or How to completely uninstall the standalone (appimage) app called Etcher from Ubuntu?.

    Type 5, installed from tar, tar.gz, tgz archive file

    The last fifth option has more variants and can be more complicated.

    The basis of success of a simple solution is to find the unpacked archive file from which the application was installed. When this succeeds, the uninstall command is in one of the variants

    sudo make uninstall

    Sometimes the tar archive includes a script for uninstalling uninstall:

    sudo ./uninstall

    etc.

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