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How can I uninstall Apache2 on Ubuntu 14.04, from the terminal? I don't know the commands.
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Possible Duplicate: How can you completely remove a package? I have learnt that using purge command rather than remove is considered better because purge removes all files related to an app ...
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I'm new to Ubuntu. I would like to know how to locate a certain software application and remove it.
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I recently installed SDL2 and want to purge all of it from my system. I know there's a million different libraries scattered all over the system. anyway I can just uninstall everything without ...
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I needed to reinstall wine from scratch so I first decided to uninstall the current version but, running the command sudo apt-cache pkgnames wine before and after running any of: sudo apt-cache --...
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I have uninstalled a package and i have added the ppa via terminal for example. I have to know that the packages have uninstalled successfully without leaving any file in my computer. Is there any ...
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I just uninstalled my first program in Ubuntu (gtg - getting things gnome) and noticed that it didn't clean after itself. It left .config/gtg and .local/share/gtg both full with configs and task info ...
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I've searched the net for such information and found different command lines, like these ones: sudo apt-get remove application sudo apt-get remove application* sudo apt-get remove --purge ...
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apt-get remove <name of program> apt-get purge <name of program> and apt-get purge -y <name of program> Research indicates the running either "remove" or "purge" performs the ...
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I have QEMU installed but as I don't really use it and it's recently had lots of security vulnerabilities discovered in it so I would like to fully remove it. I installed it with sudo apt-get install ...
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I tried uninstalling PCL 1.7.2 which I had installed manually (without sudo apt-get) but when I tried to remove them using the apt-get remove command, terminal showed me those files cannot be ...
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I am using a Ubuntu 15.10 machine and everything was just fine until yesterday..when I decided it might be cool to run kde on my system, so I installed plasma and that's when things started to get bad....
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I assume the below command does the following (please correct me if I am wrong): I want to remove the package nginx and the related configuration files. I also want to remove any related package ...
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I'm currently using Ubuntu 16.04. When I try to install spyder3 from the repositories using apt-get install spyder3 It installs spyder2 for python3.5. so I get the splash screen, the interface and ...
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I had MS Teams Preview running (mostly) smoothly on Ubuntu 20.04. After upgrading to Ubuntu 21.10 at first, Teams pretended to work flawlessly, but after some time, different issues occurred. For ...
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