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I'm that kind of user who likes to have different browsers, media players, etc. Today I just wanted to try out Opera and Google Chrome, but I don't want to use them anymore so I thought that I remove them. The problem is I can't find them in Ubuntu Software Center or when I use 'remove opera' in terminal it doesn't work. Can you tell me how to remove them properly?

Braiam
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    What is the output of your remove command (and what command did you use exactly)? – Byte Commander Feb 14 '15 at 14:37
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    Well I've downloaded the opera.deb file and installed it via USC. But now when I type opera in USC's search...nothing. So I tried apt-get remove opera/opera-stable, but still nothing. I'm almost sure that I'm doing something wrong, but I can't figure out the proper way. –  Feb 14 '15 at 14:40
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    Have a look here: [How to install applications when you're a Windows user](http://askubuntu.com/a/575161/344926) and upvote it when it helped... – Fabby Feb 16 '15 at 09:03
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    possible duplicate of [How do I install applications in Ubuntu?](http://askubuntu.com/questions/307280/how-do-i-install-applications-in-ubuntu) – Fabby Feb 16 '15 at 09:03

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Open a Terminal and put in:

sudo apt-get remove opera-stable

to remove opera and

 sudo apt-get remove google-chrome-stable

to remove chrome

poldi
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In Software Center go to Installed and from right side of the Installed click on the down arrow button and select Unknown - You will see Opera and Chrome there.

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Muzaffar
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Are you sure that you have installed these two pieces of software successfully?

Try this:

dpkg -s opera-stable google-chrome-stable

If you see dpkg-query: package 'nlll' is not installed and no information is available that means you didn't install that.

Also, if you install that, you will see lots of files.

muru
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Mr.m
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Use purge to delete the configurations as well

example:

sudo apt-get purge opera-stable
Dave
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    This would be better either as a complete answer (i.e., an answer that does not depend on reading other answers) or as a comment – josinalvo Feb 14 '15 at 17:12
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    I agree completely! I would have loved to have added it as a comment to the post it's adding to. Except Askubuntu's permissions are such that a new user gains ability to provide "answers" prior to being able to add comments. I can comment only on my own posts at this time. – Dave Feb 14 '15 at 17:56
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    okay than. No problem =P – josinalvo Feb 14 '15 at 18:16
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After a long searching process, I used sudo snap remove opera-beta command and it is working. I forget that i installed opera-beta from snap.

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I solved with this command : sudo snap remove opera

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