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javanoob
Asked: 2016-10-19 12:55:30 +0800 CST

Not able to remove software from Software center [duplicate]

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I am trying to uninstall vmware-view installed on my machine and I tried the following ways:

1) From Software Center:

Not sure why but I see that it is installed twice on my machine as you can see in the below screenshot.

I clicked the Remove button but nothing happened. I think I clicked may be 10 times all it does is opens another prompt asking if I really want to uninstall this and when I select Yes nothing happens after that and I still see listed here.

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2) I tried to remove the same from terminal by typing the below command sudo apt-get remove vmware-view but it displays message that

Unable to locate package vmware-view

What I am trying to do is re-install vmware view client as the current one is not working.

Note: I am on Ubuntu 16.10

Any help on this?

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1 Answers

  1. I had a similar situation recently where software-center wouldn't uninstall a few programs. I recommend using the top answer first. uninstall software center applications via bash

    But if that doesn't work, and the program is not registered with apt-get you can remove the files directly:

    sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/<yourProgram>/
sudo rm /usr/bin/<yourProgram>

    (I recommend looking in the folders first because the names might be slightly different from program name.)

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