How do I remove or uninstall Deluge?

Question

I upgraded to 12.04 and Deluge broke. I want to remove it and then add it again. How do I remove Deluge?

1. Tried: Searching the Ubuntu Software Centre
   Failed: The button reads "Install" (but it's already installed!)
2. Tried: sudo apt-get remove --purge deluge
   Failed: Output read Removing deluge... but I can still find it when I search my dash

Solution 1

I had the same problem uninstalling Deluge. I realized that I had the GTK version installed so merely deleting deluge didn't do the trick. I used sudo apt-get remove --purge deluge-gtk

Solution 2

If sudo apt-get remove --purge deluge succeeded, then the deluge package was successfully removed.

If menu items still appear in your dash, it doesn't necessarily mean that the program is still installed, just that links to it remain somewhere. Possibly, the dash keeps its own cache of what is in your menu, and it takes a little while to realise that a change has been made.

Feel free to go ahead and reinstall deluge now to see if it works.

For future reference, you should look for dotfiles in ~/ or in ~/config that relate to Deluge. That is the most likely place it would store data for your account. Try purging or renaming that instead. That may solve your original problem with it (rather than re-installing it).

Solution 3

Did you try complete removal via synaptic package manager?

Install synaptic sudo apt-get install synaptic

Comments

[mikewhatever]

How was Deluge installed in the first place? If you used a third party repository, has it been removed? Can you add the output of the removal command to the question.

[Woeitg]

this is the only solution that that worked for me,tnx

[user2924019]

Package name is Deluged, not Deluge.

[thomasrutter]

The main package for Deluge is called deluge. deluged is a variant that runs as a server daemon.

[Yash Kumar Atri]

This solution worked for me too , Tried removing deluge , Didn't worked but deluge-gtk worked

[Zanna]

both deluge and deluged packages exist

[Stephen Ngethe]

If you are using deluge with the WebUI you just need deluged the other version is used the desktop based