How can I uninstall Opera from Xubuntu?

Question

I have downloaded opera from the website (deb package) and installed it. Now I want to remove it but I don't know how. I tried sudo apt-get remove opera but it didn't work.

Solution 1

@Thomas W.'s answer didn't work for me on Ubuntu 14.04. I had to use:

sudo dpkg -r opera-stable

And to remove the apt sources file added by Opera:

sudo rm -f /etc/apt/sources.list.d/opera-stable.list

Solution 2

When you install via the downloaded .deb binaries/installer and not the opera repository for Opera, then it was installed with dpkg, and not apt-get.

Try using sudo dpkg --remove opera or sudo dpkg -r opera to remove it.

Solution 3

sudo apt-get remove --purge opera-stable

Try this, it's gonna work.

Solution 4

Use

dpkg -l | grep opera

to find out proper package name. For me opera-stable then

sudo apt-get remove opera-stable

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Comments

[Thomas Ward]

You're welcome, @user159082! Don't forget to mark this as accepted if it helped!

[Farahmand]

Or equally use: sudo dpkg -r opera

[karel]

duplicate of askubuntu.com/a/1113681

[Eliah Kagan]

Although this is not the same as that earlier answer, since this also removes conffiles (due to --purge), it's not obvious how the difference is important or why this approach is more likely to help, or otherwise better, than that one. You may want to edit this to clarify that.

[ibilgen]

What about /etc/apt/sources.list.d/opera-stable.list.save file? Should I remove that also? Isn't there a command that remove all files related to the application, for example sudo apt purge?