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spybot removal problems

Asked by greg

I installed Spybot S&D in Feisty and tried to remove it. It appeared to have been removed but when I upgraded to 7.10 I found it still listed in "Applications - Other."

I tried removing it by using the Spybot program remove listing under "Applications - Other" with negative results. I tried removing it using the Terminal, again with negative results.

I used both "find" and "whereis" . Find says there is no such file and whereis results in "Spybot - S&D: ".

I assume the program is gone because "find and whereis" can not find it. However I can not be sure.

I even tried the "rm" for getting rid of it which is what I did in Feisty Fawn, again with negative results.

How do I find any remnants of the program and remove them to be sure it is really completely removed from my system? I really do not want this to carry over to my next upgrade.

Thank you all in advance

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Randy LeJeune (lejeunerandy-fastmail) said : 		#1

If you were running it under wine, sometimes after uninstalling a piece of software, the icons and menu items are not cleaned up. To get a list of all installed packages on your systm, use:

dpkg -l

Wine executables will usually be stored under ~/.wine/drive_c. You can see the .wine subdirectory by doing a hidden listing with ls -la.

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greg (mordok33) said : 		#2

Randy....

I ran dpkg -l and did not find Spybot, I assume this is a good thing.

I checked .wine etc and found nothing indicating icons and/or menu items. What i found was
            .
            ..
            AutoHotkey
            Common Files
            Mozilla Active X Control

Non of which contain any icons of apparent menu items,

What did I miss or is there something missing.

Thanks again....Help

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Best Randy LeJeune (lejeunerandy-fastmail) said : 		#3

The folliwing thread may help you:

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/23537

I think the icons themselves are stored in /usr/share/pixmaps . . . right click a menu item in your menu editor and choose "properties" . . . then click on the icon . . . you should see in the dialog box the path to the icon in question.

Its kind of sloppy, but a lot of this stuff isn't cleanly uninstalled, as the icons often are not removed, but it looks like the application itself is gone.

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greg (mordok33) said : 		#4

Thanks Randy LeJeune, that solved my question.