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How do I remove a package from the Synaptic Manager, and all reference to it?

Asked by adel

HI

1) I want to know How to removing a program ,that it has not been downloaded throw the add/remove . And it is not visible on the
    synaptic package manager even by defining installed ... ect.. throw the status tab .

2) I want to know How to removing a program run by wine ?
    the uninstall doesn't work .

  I tried to use the terminal order " sudo apt-get remove " and the response was
"
  Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package quiktime

"
thank you.
ADEL.

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Pramod Dematagoda (pmdematagoda) said : 		#1

What was the program you installed in the first place? And how did you install it?

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adel (mer3e3adel) said : 		#2

For some reason the WINE program did not execute Quicketime player and the uninstall file also was not also executed.
Although the installation was a successes -the instructions were clear , the icon sell visible but no execution - .

AND I installed it through an ordinary uncompressed file ***** FROM A FLASH MEMORY STORAGE ***** .

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Pramod Dematagoda (pmdematagoda) said : 		#3

Unfortunately I didn't really understand what you just said, but here is what I think you said:-

I installed Quicktime for Windows on Linux through Wine. But Quicktime does not work, so I want to remove it, is there any way of doing this?

Is the above correct?

I am sorry to be correcting you like this but the fact is that I really did not understand what you said in the last comment and it would be better if I actually knew what is going on before trying to help you.

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adel (mer3e3adel) said : 		#4

I understand thank you.

And yes what you said was true but please take in consideration that the Quicktime is not visible in synaptic package manager even when I tried to

view the installed programs .

thank you for your time.

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Pramod Dematagoda (pmdematagoda) said : 		#5

Yes, the main reason why Quicktime is not visible in Synaptic is because there is no Quicktime deb file and and install in Wine is not recorded by the package management system of Ubuntu(nor in any other Linux distro).

If you want a quick method of removing QuickTime then you can do so by executing:-
rm r ~/.wine/
the above command removes the Wine directory and along with it, any other Windows programs you may have installed.

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adel (mer3e3adel) said : 		#6

thank you

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adel (mer3e3adel) said : 		#7

I tried the command rm ~/.wine/

the response was

rm: cannot remove `/home/adel/.wine/': Is a directory

so I tried the command rmdir ~/.wine/

the response was

rmdir: /home/adel/.wine/: Directory not empty

then the command rmdir ~/.wine/QiuckTime

the result was
rmdir: /home/adel/.wine/QiuckTime: No such file or directory

and my terminal gave me an error about the r in rm r ~/.wine/

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Pramod Dematagoda (pmdematagoda) said : 		#8

Do:-
rm -r ~/.wine/

There is a "-" before "r".

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