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Since I prefer to use Evolution, I would really like to completely remove Thunderbird from my PC. I already performed sudo apt-get purge thunderbird* but locate thunderbird still lists some hits:

/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

How can I completely remove it?

Tim
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This will completely remove thunderbird from your system.

sudo apt-get purge thunderbird*

Here is what went wrong in your case.

  • You will need to wait for the locate database to update, or force update by sudo updatedb before the system picks the changes. Or use locate -e to print only files existing at the time locate is run.
  • The files you see in /usr/share/app-install belong to Ubuntu Software Center.
  • The files in /usr/share/icons belong to the corresponding icon theme.
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Mahesh
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  • `sudo apt purge thunderbird` seemed to remove all for me - `thunderbird* thunderbird-gnome-support* thunderbird-locale-en* thunderbird-locale-en-us*` – jave.web Feb 06 '23 at 14:21
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A complete purge includes

  1. sudo apt-get purge thunderbird*
  2. rm -r /home/<username>/.thunderbird

then you can reinstall it from zero, otherwise, all the information in .thunderbird will still exist.

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