HOW-TO remove AVG Anivirus

**mikewhatever** · April 28th, 2007

Have you downloaded and installed AVG as the avg75fld-r45-a0973.i386.deb file following this how-to or perhaps another? If it does not work the way expected, or you just don't like it, uninstalling it with the following command gives en error:

sudo dpkg -P (or -r) avg75fld

(Reading database ... 131758 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing avg75fld ...
* Stopping avgdkill: 246: Illegal number: -
local: 246: 4183: bad variable name
( not running)
* [fail]
invoke-rc.d: initscript avgd, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing avg75fld (--remove):
subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 150
Errors were encountered while processing:
avg75fld

Try the following now:

sudo dpkg -R -P avg75fld

Then remove the leftovers in /opt/grisoft

sudo rm -r /opt/grisoft

**zainka** · January 11th, 2010

For avg 8.5 as latest (afaik) when reading 8.Januar.2010 (happy new year by the way) use the following command:

Code:

sudo dpkg -R -P avg85flx

**mikewhatever** · March 7th, 2010

Hey, thanks for updating this. I haven't used AVG on Ubuntu for quite some time.

**nagubhai** · October 23rd, 2011

Try below for latest avg2011

Code:

sudo dpkg -R -P avg2011flx

**anGel_OnE** · November 30th, 2011

Thank you so much!

**Cassist** · June 21st, 2013

Can anyone post how you do this for AVG 2013, because simply replacing 2011flx with 2013flx doesn't work. (I use Lubuntu btw).

**mikewhatever** · August 31st, 2013

This thread is not about installing or replacing, but rather about removing, and removing avg2013flx seems to work as well as before.

Code:

~$ sudo dpkg -P -R avg2013flx
(Reading database ... 148706 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing avg2013flx ...
 * Stopping avgd.                                                                                                [ ok ]
Uninstalling 'avgd' service initscripts...
Unregistering 'avgd' service ...
 Removing any system startup links for /etc/init.d/avgd ...
   /etc/rc0.d/K20avgd
   /etc/rc1.d/K20avgd
   /etc/rc2.d/S20avgd
   /etc/rc3.d/S20avgd
   /etc/rc4.d/S20avgd
   /etc/rc5.d/S20avgd
   /etc/rc6.d/K20avgd
Purging configuration files for avg2013flx ...
dpkg: warning: while removing avg2013flx, directory '/opt' not empty so not removed.
Processing triggers for man-db ...

Done!

**jooge** · October 26th, 2013

Originally Posted by mikewhatever

This thread is not about installing or replacing, but rather about removing, and removing avg2013flx seems to work as well as before.

Code:

~$ sudo dpkg -P -R avg2013flx
(Reading database ... 148706 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing avg2013flx ...
 * Stopping avgd.                                                                                                [ ok ]
Uninstalling 'avgd' service initscripts...
Unregistering 'avgd' service ...
 Removing any system startup links for /etc/init.d/avgd ...
   /etc/rc0.d/K20avgd
   /etc/rc1.d/K20avgd
   /etc/rc2.d/S20avgd
   /etc/rc3.d/S20avgd
   /etc/rc4.d/S20avgd
   /etc/rc5.d/S20avgd
   /etc/rc6.d/K20avgd
Purging configuration files for avg2013flx ...
dpkg: warning: while removing avg2013flx, directory '/opt' not empty so not removed.
Processing triggers for man-db ...

Done!

Thx a ton!