Ubuntu – Uninstall ‘not installed’ TexStudio

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I have installed TexStudio from a .deb package downloaded from the TexStudio web page. When I started studio, graphics was corrupted, so I decided to install another LaTeX editor (Texmaker). I installed Texmaker from Ubuntu Software Center. I wanted to remove TexStudio too, so I've clicked on the menu "Installed" and TexStudio nowhere. So I tried it through apt-get remove and the message Package 'texstudio' is not installed, so not removed was shown up. I have tried it with right mouse button click on application shortcut and chose "Uninstall", but nothing works. Texstudio shortcut is annoying, texstudio is runnable but not uninstallable. Is there a way to uninstall application correctly? Thank you.

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The actual package name may contain some suffix (less probably a prefix, too), try searching for packages beginning with the string texstudio:

apt list --installed 'texstudio*'

Then remove the found package(s), e.g.:

sudo apt remove texstudio-qt4

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If you installed "stuff" via a package manager (apt-get, dpkg, synaptic), it's all logged in /var/log/apt/*. It's a simple matter of editing to generate the apt-get purge commands.

If you installed "stuff" some other way (sudo make install, /usr/bin/cpan, ...) you have to uninstall it using the same method.

To make your life easier in the future, especially if you use the second method, consider installing and using installwatch. From the man page:

trusty (1) installwatch.1.gz
Provided by: checkinstall_1.6.2-4ubuntu1_i386

NAME

       installwatch — Track installation of software

SYNOPSIS

       installwatch [options]  [command]

DESCRIPTION

       installwatch  is  a  program that is used in order to track the changes
       made  while  installing  local  software  (i.e.   "make  install").  It
       monitors  the requested command, and produces a log which indicates all
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First, before removing it, you should know that you will remove other software that you might need, like parts of the printing system. My recommendation? Don't remove image magic.

But if you are sure you want to remove it, you can do this in a terminal window

sudo apt remove --purge imagemagick

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