How can I delete conky from my system?

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Finally, I found a solution,

sudo apt-get --purge remove conky conky-all

Thanks for your efforts :)

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solfish

keening to learn ubuntu

Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

solfish almost 2 years
I installed "conky" recently, but I'd like to unistall it now.
I tried:
```
sudo apt-get remove conky
sudo apt-get purge conky
```
After running these commands were, I can still run conky from the terminal.

How can I actually remove it?
- George Udosen almost 7 years
  
  Open a new terminal and run that code.
- Panther almost 7 years
  
  How did you install conky ? I am guessing not with apt-get. What version of Ubuntu ?
- solfish almost 7 years
  
  ubuntu 16.04, i installed from source package
- Ravexina almost 7 years
  
  Download the source again, go into its directory, run './configure` then run sudo make uninstall if you were lucky, it will work and uninstall it.
- Panther almost 7 years
  
  If that does not work you will have to manually remove it by deleting the files it installed. In the future this is a reason to use apt, ie apt-get or package manager.
- Zanna almost 7 years
  
  Judging by solfish's own answer, they did install using APT
solfish almost 7 years

thanks but is there any way by using terminal?
Daniel Adamkovič almost 7 years

Ah, got it it's actually named 'conky-std' so just run sudo apt-get purge cokny-std
Panther almost 7 years

apt-get will not work, OP installed from source.
Zanna almost 7 years

@bodhi.zazen apparently not, looking at the self-answer... When they said "source package" I think they meant "package from a source [where packages come from such as an apt repository]"
Panther almost 7 years

@Zanna - Well the point is apt-get will not work if a package is installed outside of APT (apt-get or software center). The OP posted conflicting information so as long as you understand my point about installing packages outside of APT ;) FWIW I did NOT downvote this answer
Zanna almost 7 years

@bodhi.zazen of course :) it was just a (probably overzealous) fyi, I was trying to clean up the whole page which is a bit of a mess now with accepted link-only answer and lots of confusing comments. Not sure what to do. By the way Daniel, you can always comment on your own posts regardless of reputation
Daniel Adamkovič almost 7 years

@Zanna Yeah, I know, but they were having conversation in the answer below which I couldn't join.
terdon almost 7 years

If this is the solution that worked for you, please accept it. You seem to have accepted an answer that is completely irrelevant.