How to remove compton from Ubuntu 23.04

Kira Sign

8/25/24, 2:19 PM

How can I remove compton from Ubuntu 23.04

which compton
/usr/local/bin/compton

And with

apt list | grep compton    
compton 1-1 [Ubuntu/lunar universe]
compton-conf 0.16.0-1ubuntu1 [Ubuntu/lunar universe]

But when I tried to remove

Package 'compton' is not installed, so not removed

Thanks

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user535733

8/25/24, 3:23 PM

When using `apt list`, installed packages are marked `[installed]`. Your output shows that those packages aren't so marked. So it was installed using some other method.

Kira Sign

8/25/24, 3:42 PM

@user535733 I see. Then is there anyway to find which package brought compton along with

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vanadium

8/25/24, 3:49 PM

The binary compton on your system was not installed using the APT package manager. This can be seen

because the output of apt list | grep compton does not feature [installed]
because the executable resides in /usr/local/bin/, whereas APT managed binaries will be installed under /usr/bin or /usr/sbin.

Packages may end up under /usr/local/bin/ as a result of an install script (sudo make install after compiling source code, for example) or may have manually been copied there. Only the administrator of your system can tell specifically how the package was installed.

If the package that was installed featured an uninstall script, you can use that to remove the program. Else, you will need to manually remove the installed files. The tool whereis may list other installed files as long as they also have compton in the file name, for example a man page.

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