To eliminate them, we have to navigate and look for the name of the app in these paths (where ~ / is our personal folder and the folders with a dot in front are hidden): Uninstalling the applications does not clean everything related to them there are still likely to be configuration files. In the window that appears with the related packages, we click on "Mark".We choose the option «Mark to uninstall completely».We look for it from the magnifying glass icon (Search).And to completely remove an app, we just have to do the following: Once we start it, it will ask us to enter our user password because it needs privileges to make the changes. If we do not have it installed by default, we can do it from our software center or with the following command: sudo apt install synaptic It is a package manager that many of us will know because it was included by default in popular Linux distributions such as Ubuntu. If we don't like the terminal, we also have user interface options like Synaptic. Sudo yum remove del grupo" Option with GUI: Synaptic If we have installed packages using the groups function from YUM, we will have to delete them as a group using this other command: The command to VLC would be the following: sudo yum remove vlc If your distribution uses YUM instead of APT, the command will be different. It seems important to mention that this command will remove old kernel versions as well, so it must be taken into account if we want to keep them for any reason.
We can eliminate them all at once with the following command: sudo apt autoremoveĪs with purge, it will perform the reading, it will show us what it is going to delete and it will delete it.
If we are used to using the "apt remove" command to remove software in Linux, we will be left with a lot of residual files. Once the command has been written, pressed Enter and entered our password, it will read, it will show us the packages to be removed and it will ask us, at which point we will have to press Y (es) or Y (í) followed by Enter to eliminate all the waste that we had left of that application and we no longer need.
To remove a software and all its related files, we have to execute the following command: sudo apt purge nombre-del-paqueteįrom the above command, we have to change "package-name" to the package in question, which for VLC would be "sudo apt purge vlc" (without the quotes). This is something that we cannot find when we have installed the software from official repositories, but there are general ways to clean as much as possible, such as the following: apt purge The different ways to delete residual files in LinuxĮspecially when we get the software online, there are many apps that include how to delete the residual files in a file that is usually called "Install" or "Readme".
0 kommentar(er)
