I know there are numerous posts on how to remove skype from ubuntu. However, I found none for 16.04 and more importantly no method worked for me.
I tried what I thought was most thorough:
apt-get purge skypeforlinux
apt-get autoremove --purge skypeforlinux
dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq skypeforlinux
apt-get autoclean
apt-get clean
apt-get -f install
also, trying to manually remove package did not help:
rm -r ~/.config/skypeforlinux/
rm -v /etc/apt/sources.list.d/skype*
I must admit that I dont remember how I installed it. Skype-repo is not listed in my sources-list. Also I cant find a .deb in my /Downloads which should be the case if I had installed it via .deb.
Sorry for this confusion.
The program just keeps showing up like a little microsoft daemon. I'd recommend anyone to use jitsi, mumble, … instead.
Thanks a lot!
Best Answer
skype is perhaps installed as snap package
if so, here is how to uninstall it