How can I uninstall amazon app on ubuntu?

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Solution 1

Try this:

sudo apt-get remove unity-webapps-common

Solution 2

Why this throws errors

sudo-apt-get remove amazon

The problem here is multiple

  • its sudo apt-get remove PACKAGENAME not sudo-apt get PACKAGENAME
  • You are guessing PACKAGENAMES (amazon) here

How to locate package names and remove them

I would recommend to check what packagename you need to remove first and then remove it.

You could filter all installed packagenames for the string amazon first like this

sudo dpkg -l | grep amazon

This should output all installed package-names containing the string amazon.

Then - if you know which packagename you want to remove do as follows

sudo apt-get remove PACKAGENAME

or

sudo apt remove PACKAGENAME

As @Saikat Kundu mentioned already - the packagename you are looking in this particular case is unity-webapps-common.

Hope this helps understanding apt

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  • Alucard DeRosier
    Alucard DeRosier about 1 year

    I've tried using

    sudo apt-get remove amazon
    

    and the result was sudo-apt-get: command not found

    and I tried

    sudo apt-get remove amazon*
    

    and I got

    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree       
    Reading state information... Done
    Note, selecting 'unity-webapps-amazoncloudreader' for regex 'amazon*'
    Note, selecting 'ruby-amazon-ec2' for regex 'amazon*'
    Note, selecting 'libnet-amazon-s3-tools-perl' for regex 'amazon*'
    Note, selecting 'unity-webapps-amazon' for regex 'amazon*'
    Note, selecting 'libnet-amazon-ec2-perl' for regex 'amazon*'
    Note, selecting 'gamazons' for regex 'amazon*'
    Note, selecting 'libnet-amazon-perl' for regex 'amazon*'
    Note, selecting 'libamazon-sqs-simple-perl' for regex 'amazon*'
    Note, selecting 'libnet-amazon-s3-perl' for regex 'amazon*'
    Note, selecting 'flight-of-the-amazon-queen' for regex 'amazon*'
    Note, selecting 'gmpc-plugin-coveramazon' for regex 'amazon*'
    Package 'unity-webapps-amazon' is not installed, so not removed
    Package 'gmpc-plugin-coveramazon' is not installed, so not removed
    Package 'flight-of-the-amazon-queen' is not installed, so not removed
    Package 'gamazons' is not installed, so not removed
    Package 'libamazon-sqs-simple-perl' is not installed, so not removed
    Package 'libnet-amazon-ec2-perl' is not installed, so not removed
    Package 'libnet-amazon-perl' is not installed, so not removed
    Package 'libnet-amazon-s3-perl' is not installed, so not removed
    Package 'libnet-amazon-s3-tools-perl' is not installed, so not removed
    Package 'ruby-amazon-ec2' is not installed, so not removed
    Package 'unity-webapps-amazoncloudreader' is not installed, so not removed
    0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 18 not upgraded.
    

    How can I remove this amazon application that was installed by default?

    • Alucard DeRosier
      Alucard DeRosier over 7 years
      no im not talking about search results im talking about the app itself