How can I uninstall a program I installed using a .deb package?

**Moonfrost** · October 26th, 2008

I installed Wah!Cade, a frontend for the MAME arcade emulator...it turns out it's useless since it doesn't let me setup any video, audio options etc etc...

The thing is I want to know how can I remove it? as I said, I didn't install it through Adept/Sypnaptic, I used a .deb package I downloaded. Is there a way to do this at all? I've been using Linux for a year and half and I stopped installing from .deb or compiling for this same reason, there doesn't seem to be anyway to uninstall programs and I can't believe it hasn't been implemented in Linux yet or at least Ubuntu/Kubuntu alone.

**Beth1957** · October 26th, 2008

Originally Posted by Moonfrost

I installed Wah!Cade, a frontend for the MAME arcade emulator...it turns out it's useless since it doesn't let me setup any video, audio options etc etc...

The thing is I want to know how can I remove it? as I said, I didn't install it through Adept/Sypnaptic, I used a .deb package I downloaded. Is there a way to do this at all? I've been using Linux for a year and half and I stopped installing from .deb or compiling for this same reason, there doesn't seem to be anyway to uninstall programs and I can't believe it hasn't been implemented in Linux yet or at least Ubuntu/Kubuntu alone.

Does

Code:

apt-get purge {name of package}

do anything? I've not tried it on .deb files...

**ciscosurfer** · October 26th, 2008

Code:

sudo dpkg -r wahcade

**berriop** · October 26th, 2008

try

Code:

sudo dpkg -r packagename

from
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=269296

or google it, search: ubuntu unistall deb package

**geirha** · October 26th, 2008

You uninstall it the same way you uninstall packages installed from the repositories. Synaptic, apt-get, dpkg ... whichever you prefer.

**Moonfrost** · October 26th, 2008

Okay, I fee embarrassed by not trying sudo apt-get remove before...I have tried it before on other Ubuntu versions and it NEVER worked, and somebody I think it was in this same forum told me that apt-get could only remove packages that were installed using either apt-get, adept or synaptic.

EDIT: I forgot to say that that worked and thanks!