To remove a package in Ubuntu, use the sudo apt-get remove command. This will uninstall the package.
jason-H55-USB3 [mc] ~ 14-10-18 8:47PM jason-H55-USB3% sudo apt-get remove linphone Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libexosip2-10 liblinphone5 libmediastreamer-base3 libortp9 libosip2-10 libupnp6 linphone-common linphone-nogtk Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: linphone 0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 1 to remove and 3 not to upgrade. After this operation, 340 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... 219801 files and directories currently installed.) Removing linphone (3.6.1-2.1build2) ... Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.10.1-0ubuntu2) ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.1+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1) ... Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index... Processing triggers for mime-support (3.54ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for menu (2.1.46ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ... |
Sometimes, you will also want to remove all of the configuration settings for the package as well, the sudo apt-get remove --purge command will remove the package and all of the configuration settings as well.
If there are packages left over after removing a package, then the sudo apt-get autoremove command will clean up your system.
jason-H55-USB3 [sudo apt-get remove --purge] ~ 14-10-18 8:56PM jason-H55-USB3% sudo apt-get autoremove Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: libexosip2-10 liblinphone5 libmediastreamer-base3 libortp9 libosip2-10 libupnp6 linphone-common linphone-nogtk 0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 8 to remove and 3 not to upgrade. After this operation, 10.2 MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... 219787 files and directories currently installed.) Removing linphone-nogtk (3.6.1-2.1build2) ... Removing liblinphone5:amd64 (3.6.1-2.1build2) ... Removing libexosip2-10 (4.0.0-4ubuntu1) ... Removing libmediastreamer-base3:amd64 (3.6.1-2.1build2) ... Removing libortp9:amd64 (3.6.1-2.1build2) ... Removing libosip2-10:amd64 (4.0.0-3ubuntu2) ... Removing libupnp6 (1:1.6.17-1.2) ... Removing linphone-common (3.6.1-2.1build2) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-0ubuntu6.3) ... |
Using these commands, you can easily manage the packages on your system and keep your Linux installation free of unwanted software.