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So I installed the cinnamon desktop environment on Ubuntu 12.10 but now I want to uninstall it. What would the command line(s) be to uninstall it?

Jorge Castro
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Zach Burns
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    possible duplicate of [How do I remove Cinnamon?](http://askubuntu.com/questions/142533/how-do-i-remove-cinnamon) – Ringtail Nov 23 '12 at 16:40

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I remember something like that

sudo apt-get purge cinnamon
Seth
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In my case, I uninstalled it by the command mentioned by Enes. But I was still getting notification for updating Cinnamon.

I solved it by using these two commands:

sudo apt-get purge cinnamon
...
sudo apt-get autoremove
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In order to remove cinnamon and all the related packages the PPA installed you need first to install PPA-purge: disables a PPA and reverts to official packages.

sudo apt-get install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:gwendal-lebihan-dev/cinnamon-stable

You can see a little example of how to use PPA-purge http://www.webupd8.org/2009/12/remove-ppa-repositories-via-command.html

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sudo apt-get purge cinnamon --autoremove
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First, check what is going to be removed

sudo dpkg -l | grep .cinnamon.

If you are ok with it, run this command

sudo apt autoremove --purge cinnamon*

Command explanation

# dpkg -l       lists all installed packages
# grep .cinnamon.   filters, so that only packages with keyword cinnamon within their names, listed
# purge         removes mentioned package
# autoremove    tries to remove dependency packages
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