How to uninstall Google Chrome?

Question

I decided to try out Google Chrome and see if it was any different from Chromium, but now I can't figure out how to uninstall it. That's what I have installed. How to get rid of it is the question.

Solution 1

Run sudo apt-get remove google-chrome-stable in a terminal.

Solution 2

It's usually better to purge:

sudo apt-get purge google-chrome-stable

and then

sudo apt-get autoremove

This will make sure you don't have unnecessary packages remaining, and will remove config files, saving a little space and making sure it won't interfere with other programs or future reinstallations.

Comments

[itsols]

It is unfortunate that Ubuntu won't show Chrome in the installed software list or anywhere else when searched as "Chrome", "Google" or "Google Chrome". I HAD to type "google-chrome"... So much for Unity :\

[rab]

will my bookmark and plugins lost after this ?

[Hey]

@rab They will stay in ~/.config/google-chrome (not sure about the name), and other browsers should be able to import them. If you reinstall Chrome without deleting this folder, you should see them.

[Baku9]

Wouldn't it be better to purge?

[SidOfc]

This will not remove the ~/.config/google-chrome, this has to be done manually through rm -rf ~/.config/google-chrome

[Kapel]

I ran those 3 commands (sudo apt-get purge google-chrome-stable, sudo apt-get autoremove and sudo rm -rf ~/.config/google-chrome), but I still have the downloaded original deb file i.e. google-chrome-stable_83.0.4103.61-1_amd64.deb (size 68,7 MB) in my directory var/cache/apt/archives. How to uninstall / delete it from there ?

[Kapel]

I found the following a command which can delete all files from directory var/cache/apt/archives: sudo apt-get clean. Source: howtogeek.com/229699/…