How to uninstall PacketTracer

Question

I installed cisco packettracer for networking class today, but I have no idea how I would go about uninstalling it. I have tried searching Synaptic Package Manager for terms like packettracer, packet tracer, pt, but nothing found.

To install I used the following script included in the tar.gz (which functioned for the install). This is the content and might give us an idea of how to do this...

http://paste.ubuntu.com/12413899/

How would I go about uninstalling it and cleaning it from my system?

Solution

The application is installed in /opt/pt and the installer has created an desktop file in /usr/share/applications/pt6.desktop and an icon. Therefore

sudo rm -r /opt/pt
sudo rm /usr/share/applications/pt6.desktop
sudo rm /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/pt6.png

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Additionally, some packages have been installed:

lib32z1
lib32ncurses5
lib32bz2-1.0
libgcc1:i386
libstdc++6:i386
libssl-dev:i386
libqtwebkit4:i386
libqt4-scripttools:i386

Therefore you could try to remove the packages, but that is not absolutely necessary.

1. sudo apt-get purge lib32z1

   Check the output and don't proceed, if other packages will be removed which are not in the list above.

2. sudo apt-get purge lib32ncurses5

   Check the output and don't proceed, if other packages to be removed which are not in the list above.

3. Repeat step 2 for all other packages in the list above.

Comments

[David Foerster]

Since this is a custom installer script, you need to consult the documentation about possible deinstallation methods. Software packages often contain INSTALLING or README files to such extent. I would take a peek, but I don't even know, what yo look for. Can you post a link to the software archive or its documentation?