How to uninstall Battle.net and Hearthstone

Question

I downloaded Hearthstone and Battle.net a while ago and they had both been working great. However, I am now unable to properly log into my hearthstone account. When I do log in hearthstone is recognizing my account as a "new user", except I have the same gamer tag and gamer ID as I normally do. I have tried logging into hearthstone from other computers and it works completely fine.

I want to remove hearthstone and battle.net from my computer and reinstall them to see if it will fix this problem.

I tried using 'sudo apt-get purge Hearthstone', however this is the incorrect package name. I used 'apt-cache Hearthstone' to try to find the package name, but I did not come up with any results. I downloaded Synaptics Package Manager and searched 'Hearthstone', but also did not come up with any other results. I also tried the exact same for "Battle.net" which found the same results. I was able to find Battle.net in Synaptic Package Manager, and I "Marked it for removal", but this did not work either. Unity says that these files are still available on my computer. I can also find them using the file search tool.

So, as you can imagine I am at a loss as to how to do this. I am wondering 1) why the package names are not showing up using any of these methods, 2) if anybody has experience with Hearthstone doing this to them.

Solution

As stated, it will not be listed if you didn't install it via the apt-get.

If you installed it via a .deb package you could try using 'dkpg -l' from the terminal to list all installed .deb packages.

If you can locate it you should be able to eradicate it by typing 'dpkg -P ', which will remove the package and all configuration files.

Comments

[psusi]

These programs are proprietary and not provided by Ubuntu, so you will have to seek support from their authors.

[Robobenklein]

Could you give details about how you installed the games? To remove software via sudo apt-get purge you needed to have installed that software via apt-get or the Software Center, which I don't think you have done.