[NCLUG] Remove 3rd party app -- resolved

Bill Cthulhu degutan at gmail.com
Tue Apr 17 14:43:43 MDT 2012


I was finally able to remove it with dpkg.   I just had to figure out what
it was being called my manually traversing what was installed.

Thanks for the help everyone.

-Bill

On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 12:00 PM, <nclug-request at lists.nclug.org> wrote:

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>   1. remove a 3rd party app -- can't seem to find it in packages
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> Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:39:25 -0600
> From: Ryan J Nicholson <rjn256 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [NCLUG] remove a 3rd party app -- can't seem to find it in
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> Bill,
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> If you used a package manager or apt from the command line..look in
> /var/cache/apt/archives, you should see some cached package files..
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> The 3rd party app may have installed under /opt. Take a look. If you
> find any files that look like they belong to the package, then you
> might try Bob and Aaron's suggestions to use dpkg to search the
> package database.
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> Ryan
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