[SOLVED] Opera 9.51

[coolbrook]

Does anyone know how to uninstall Opera 9.50 beta 2 so that 9.51 can be installed. An upgrade does not work. I tried removing from terminal and Synaptic but Opera still shows up in the Applications menu. When I try to install the new .deb, 'About Opera' still shows Opera 9.50 beta 2 (Synaptic says that 9.51 is installed.)

[thewolf32]

Have you tried the "completly remove" option in Synaptic?

[coolbrook]

Already tried it. The only result is that I have no Opera option in Synaptic. The Opera beta's still installed.

[nikgare]

Are you sure that it isn't just a case of Opera reporting the wrong version number?

[coolbrook]

Of that I'm not certain, but I do know that it won't remove from the system. (for example if I just wanted to uninstall without installing a new version.)

[nikgare]

How did you install the beta on your system? Presumably not via dpkg or synaptic?
Maybe it's in a folder in your home folder and you just need to remove it/uninstall it

[vanden12]

have you tryed...

sudo apt-get remove Opera....

and to remove the configuration

sudo apt-get remove --purge opera

[Sef]

have you tryed...

sudo apt-get remove Opera....

and to remove the configuration

sudo apt-get remove --purge opera

All that is needed to do is the latter command.

[coolbrook]

sudo apt-get remove --purge opera

Thanks. I bolded what I omitted. I ran this command and this is what terminal tells me...

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package opera is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.


..but I can very easily still run the old Opera beta from the Applications menu. :confused:

[drken]

Thanks for the info! I tried Opera 9.51 and did not like it at all, and wanted to remove it but didn't have a clue. I tried the Add/Remove under Applications, but no dice. I just installed Ubuntu 8.04 this week on a new laptop I purchased just for this purpose (my other machines are all WinXP) and am tring my hardest to learn linux. I am very favorably impressed with Ubuntu 8.04 (tried RedHat and earlier Ubuntu distributions in the past and hated them) but this is super! In the 5 days I've been using this system exclusively, removing Opera was the only sore spot I've encountered thus far.

[TenPlus1]

Hmm, bit strange that removing opera using synaptic doesnt seem to work for you properly... How about deleting the .opera directory in your home folder then re-installing the latest version 9.52 ?