[NCLUG] remove a 3rd party app -- can't seem to find it in packages

[Aaron D. Johnson]

Bob Proulx writes:
>   dpkg -l | grep STRING
> 
> What is the status?  The first two charactes on the line.  Or you can
> get a full detail dump by this:

Also useful, if you know the name of a file that was in the package:

  dpkg -S /path/to/file

    OR
 
  dpkg -S somefilename

If the package manager knows about any such file, it will tell you the
name of the package that owns it.  It can then be removed with "dpkg
--remove" or "dpkg --purge"

Hope this helps.

- Aaron