Removing Texlive From Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Installed using terminal, apt-get)

Question

I am using TexLive 2015 and I would like to move on to 2016 or even better 2017.
I read on internet that uninstalling and doing a fresh install is a better idea than upgrading TexLive, is it true?
Anyways I started looking for the ways to see how I can uninsntall TexLive from my ubuntu 16.04 LTS (64 bit) and I found this: Open the link
I had installed Texlive using terminal so the path is \usr\share\texlive and not \usr\local\texlive as suggested in the above link.
My question is to uninstall TexLive, is it necessary to go through all those steps?
If yes, the only change I need to make in those commands is changing the path from \usr\local\texlive to \usr\share\texlive or I should change something more?
Thanks

Solution

Well as it turns out, to do the job of removing TexLive, one simply needs to:

sudo apt-get purge texlive-*
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get autoclean

As suggested here
That's all!

Comments

[George Udosen]

Which did you use to install it, apt or apt-get or custom build note all are via terminal!

[George Udosen]

Best option use dpkg-query -L testlive to determine the files to remove

[Dude]

@GeorgeUdosen , I used apt-get, how does that matter? asking out of curiosity.

[George Udosen]

It matters because the method of install determines the method of removal, now please run whereis textlive so we know what files will be removed and adapt that link answer

[Dude]

@GeorgeUdosen, here is the results for whereis texlive: \usr\share\texlive, as mentioned earlier. So now i just need to follow the instruction in the link using the path of my own?

[George Udosen]

It returns only one result, did you run apt purge previously?

[Dude]

not at all, what information exactly do you need? also when i run dpkg -L texlive it says that the package is not installed!!!

[George Udosen]

Ok work with that then!

[stragu]

That was enough to do a TinyTeX install without running into any errors, on Ubuntu 18.04. Cheers!

[Drake Sobania]

if you get an error, try sudo apt-get purge "texlive-*"