How to uninstall dotnet from Ubuntu 20.10 completely?

Question

I have installed dotnet on my Ubuntu 20.10 but for some reason I want to remove it but I don't know how to do it please help.

Solution 1

Run these commands:

sudo apt remove --purge dotnet-sdk-5.0.101
sudo apt remove --purge dotnet-runtime-5.0.101

Solution 2

For the situation where dotnet has been installed using snap, you can do the following:

1. You need to list the names of the snap packages by going to the /snap directory. For example, on Ubuntu 21, my dotnet installations are shown in the following script.

   $ cd /snap
   $ ls
   ...
   dotnet-sdk
   dotnet-runtime-60
   ...
   

2. Then you can use the following commands to remove the snaps.

   sudo snap remove dotnet-sdk
   sudo snap remove dotnet-runtime-60
   

This was based on the answer for snap packages here: How to list files installed by a snap package?

Solution 3

Try with major and minor version only:

sudo apt remove --purge dotnet-sdk-6.0
sudo apt remove --purge dotnet-runtime-6.0

Comments

[madan]

not working for me sudo dotnet --list-sdks 6.0.101 [/snap/dotnet-sdk/152/sdk] sudo apt remove --purge dotnet-sdk-6.0.101 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package dotnet-sdk-6.0.101 E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'dotnet-sdk-6.0.101'

[ChanganAuto]

FYI askubuntu.com/a/1388621/1210606 is the correct answer because this comment from am year ago askubuntu.com/questions/1305271/… showed it was a snap.

[kol]

This worked for me! sudo apt purge dotnet-sdk-6.0

[kol]

@madan Try with "major.minor", like sudo apt purge dotnet-sdk-6.0

[madan]

thanks kol, i am afraid i do not currently have this issue so can't try the solution