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I have followed endless amount of guides in order to make primus work with steam in ubuntu 14.04 and yet nothing works. I would like to completely purge everything that is associated with nvidia, bumblebee, nvidia x server, primus, prime indicator and so on. Can I do so?

Marius
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    It also depends on how you installed these things. – Panther Jul 14 '14 at 21:46
  • @Panther Your comment raises a concern that the accepted answer below may not work all the time. – WinEunuuchs2Unix May 06 '18 at 16:42
  • @WinEunuuchs2Unix This comment is from 2014 , but no the accepted answer will not work if one has manually installed the nvidia driver, it only works if it was installed with apt / apt-get. And what is `*` ?? . At any rate the answer worked for asdasda – Panther May 06 '18 at 17:11

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Regular expressions can help you here.

sudo apt-get purge nvidia* bumblebee*  <any other packages>*

You could also open synaptic package manager, search for primus and mark it for complete removal.

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  • I think this **might** be dangerous as it would remove `nvidia-common` which is a core of Ubuntu Desktop as this answer states: https://askubuntu.com/a/206289/307523 – WinEunuuchs2Unix May 06 '18 at 16:51