Question: How to Uninstall a Program on Linux?
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Method 1 Uninstalling Programs with Terminal

  • Open. Terminal.
  • Open a list of your currently installed programs. Type dpkg –list into Terminal, then press ↵ Enter .
  • Find the program that you want to uninstall.
  • Enter the “apt-get” command.
  • Enter your root password.
  • Confirm the deletion.

Method 1 Uninstalling Programs with Terminal

  • Open. Terminal.
  • Open a list of your currently installed programs. Type dpkg –list into Terminal, then press ↵ Enter .
  • Find the program that you want to uninstall.
  • Enter the “apt-get” command.
  • Enter your root password.
  • Confirm the deletion.

2. Use RPM command to uninstall.

  • Now you can uninstall them safely, and all other packages, as shown below: Remove the specified packages for Red Hat Linux version 6.1 (Cartman).
  • Remove the linux.conf-installed file manually.

Uninstall / Remove Webmin Software. CentOS / RHEL 5/6: Uninstall Apache (HTTPD) Server. HowTo: Uninstall MySQL Server in Ubuntu Linux. Ubuntu Linux Remove/Delete PPAs apt-get command.

How do I uninstall apt get?

Use apt to uninstall and remove all MySQL packages:

  1. $ sudo apt-get remove –purge mysql-server mysql-client mysql-common -y $ sudo apt-get autoremove -y $ sudo apt-get autoclean. Remove the MySQL folder:
  2. $ rm -rf /etc/mysql. Delete all MySQL files on your server:
  3. $ sudo find / -iname ‘mysql*’ -exec rm -rf {} \;

How do I uninstall a program on Ubuntu?

Open Ubuntu Software, click the Installed tab, select the app you wish to uninstall, and hit the Remove button.

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