Done all steps suggested within How to completely remove Thunderbird? and still end locating:
locate -e thunderbird
/usr/share/app-install/desktop/thunderbird:thunderbird.desktop
/usr/share/app-install/icons/thunderbird.png
/usr/share/icons/HighContrast/scalable/apps-extra/thunderbird-icon.svg
/var/cache/apt/archives/thunderbird-gnome-support_1%3a45.5.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/thunderbird-locale-de_1%3a45.5.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/thunderbird-locale-en-gb_1%3a45.5.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1_all.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/thunderbird-locale-en-us_1%3a45.5.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1_all.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/thunderbird-locale-en_1%3a45.5.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/thunderbird-locale-hr_1%3a45.5.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/thunderbird-locale-sr_1%3a45.5.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/thunderbird_1%3a45.5.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1_amd64.deb
/var/lib/app-info/icons/ubuntu-xenial-main/64x64/thunderbird_thunderbird.png
Is it safe to remove these files manually in the event you actually want to do fresh install of Thunderbird afterwards? This is my last attempt to get Thunderbird to work on my Ubuntu driven system since one of the mail boxes simply doesn't pull new messages using IMAP protocol no matter what I did in settings.
Best Answer
The stuff in
/usr/share/app-install
is actually part of the packageapp-install-data
as you can see in the output ofdpkg-query -S /usr/share/app-install/*thunderbird*
./var/lib/app-info
is generated by or for the same package./usr/share/icons/HighContrast/scalable/apps-extra/thunderbird-icon.svg
is part ofgnome-accessibility-themes
./var/lib/apt/archives/
contains package archive files you downloaded in the past via Apt and that haven't been cleaned out yet.You can remove all of these without serious consequences because they're either
though I don't think it's wise to corrupt packages to free a few meagre kilobytes and inodes. If you want to clear the Apt archive either manually or automatically there are cleaner, more elegant ways to achieve that (which is a topic for a different question).