How to Uninstall Freefilesync from Ubuntu

I installed FreeFileSync for my Ubuntu 20.04 from here;

Installation was successful and the app is working. The problem is I can't remove FreeFileSync from my device.

  1. I tried ubuntu software centre: It is not listed there
  2. Tried following commands. But none did work
sudo apt remove freefilesync
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package freefilesync
sudo apt-get autoremove freefilesync
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package freefilesync

Any help?

Update: Here is the output for which freefilesync

aca@aca-00:~$ which FreeFileSync
aca@aca-00:~$ which freefilesync
aca@aca-00:~$ which RealtimeFileSync
aca@aca-00:~$ 

No output actually :(

Update 2; My ubuntu Version

Output of lsb_release -a

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
Release:    20.04
Codename:   focal

Update 3: Problem Solved

There is an uninstall.sh file at /opt/FreeFileSync/. (Lol, I spent hours for this)

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2 Answers

Previously FreeFileSync was available as tarball, so one should download it, extract to somewhere and then adjust $PATH variable in ~/.bashrc, ~/.profile and put desktop-file into ~/.local/share/applications.
You have to check which FreeFileSync and which RealtimeFileSync and decide is it your case or not.

Currently FreeFileSync is shipped as FlatPak, to remove it use command below:

flatpak remove org.freefilesync.FreeFileSync
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If you installed FreeFileSync with the FreeFileSync_11.21_Install.run file that you extracted from FreeFileSync_11.21_Linux.tar.gz that you downloaded from , run the uninstall.sh file located at /opt/FreeFileSync.

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