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Ubuntu

How do I uninstall a package from terminal?

Prakhar Sharma

4/30/23, 7:19 AM

Days ago, I installed Wine 6.0.2 (to run windows software) and Winetricks '20210206-next' to be able to easily use Wine. However, I uninstalled wine recently using sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove winehq-stable . I got this command from internet.

Now when I type wine in terminal I get bash: /usr/bin/wine: No such file or directory as it should be. However, when I type apt list -a wine I get wine/focal,focal 5.0-3ubuntu1 all. Does it mean I still have Wine installed? Also, I wanted to uninstall Winetricks. I used sudo apt-get purge winetricks then it says Package 'winetricks' is not installed, so not removed.

Please let me know how do I uninstall Winetricks. Btw when I type apt list -a winetricks I get winetricks/focal,focal 0.0+20200412-1 all. Also, I can't see winetricks in my Ubuntu GUI package manager.

I ran apt list --installed| grep wine*, I can't see any package named Wine or Winetricks. However, when I run winetricks or winetricks --version I can see the package is there.

Well, I am using Ubuntu 20.04. Here is the output to dpkg -l | grep -i wine

rc  wine-stable                                6.0.2~focal-1                         amd64        WINE Is Not An Emulator - runs MS Windows programs
rc  wine-stable-amd64                          6.0.2~focal-1                         amd64        WINE Is Not An Emulator - runs MS Windows programs
rc  wine-stable-i386:i386                      6.0.2~focal-1                         i386         WINE Is Not An Emulator - runs MS Windows programs

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Someone

4/30/23, 7:22 AM

You need to use `apt list --installed` to check installed packages. The command you are using list every package available in the repositpries. Also, [edit] you question and add the version of ubuntu you use.

Someone

4/30/23, 7:24 AM

You can simply use `apt remove` to remove any installed package, what is hard in that?

Prakhar Sharma

4/30/23, 7:32 AM

i've edited the question.

N0rbert

4/30/23, 8:16 AM

To be sure please add output of `dpkg -l | grep -i wine` to the question.

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Ubuntu

karel

4/30/23, 7:25 AM

apt list -a wine or apt list --all-versions wine lists all available versions of wine. I do not have wine installed, and the results of apt list -a wine in my terminal are the same as yours:

Listing... Done
wine/focal,focal 5.0-3ubuntu1 all

Run apt policy package to check if a package is installed. The results of apt policy wine confirm that the wine package is not installed:

wine:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 5.0-3ubuntu1

Partial results of man apt showing the results for the list option of apt:

list
    list is somewhat similar to dpkg-query --list in that it can
    display a list of packages satisfying certain criteria. It supports
    glob(7) patterns for matching package names as well as options to
    list installed (--installed), upgradeable (--upgradeable) or all
    available (--all-versions) versions.

The results of apt list --installed wine or apt list -i wine don't return any packages at all confirming that the wine package is not installed:

Listing... Done

When you run winetricks or winetricks --version you can see the package is there, because you did not install winetricks from the default Ubuntu 20.04 repositories. iinm you manually installed winetricks version 20210206-next with the following commands and did not manually remove winetricks from the /usr/local/bin directory where it is installed:

wget  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks
chmod +x winetricks 
sudo mv -v winetricks /usr/local/bin

After manually removing winetricks from /usr/local/bin with cd /usr/local/bin && sudo rm winetricks run apt policy winetricks to check if it is still installed.

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Prakhar Sharma

4/30/23, 8:48 AM

This worked. I don't remember exactly how I installed Winetricks. Isn't there any Windows equivalent to add or remove programs. Ubuntu Software Center does not shows all installed packages. Also, in my case, I used wget, and I can't see the package in ' apt list --installed' .

karel

4/30/23, 8:59 AM

There are multiple ways that winetricks could end up installed in `/usr/local/bin` . If you moved winetricks into `/usr/local/bin` with `sudo mv -v winetricks /usr/local/bin` then you can remove it using the built-in Files file browser application by installing the nautilus-admin package with `sudo apt install nautilus-admin` nautilus-admin is an extension for Nautilus to do administrative operations. It's not exactly like Windows Add/Remove Programs, but at least it has a GUI.

karel

4/30/23, 9:06 AM

Packages that are compiled from source can be uninstalled similarly to Add/Remove Programs in Windows using the Software app if you converted the package into a .deb package before you installed it using the checkinstall package (`sudo apt install checkinstall`) .