Hello, in PureOS I went to the start menu, then I clicked on the Software briefcase icon, then I went to games, then I downloaded the free version of Tetris.
Then I didn’t want the free version of Tetris. I went through the usual procedure of right click on icons, click “show detail”, click remove… but then it says I can’t remove it because there are “no packages to remove”. Obviously I can still click on the game and play it, so something is there.
How do I remove this?
Thank you.
Sometimes the Software app doesn’t seem to want to remove something that was just installed.
Try this in the terminal: sudo apt remove quadrapassel
That should work 
Amazing. Worked perfectly. Thank you.
Hello, I have since tried this same method to remove other things I have installed from the “app store” it is not working as it did with the quad game thing.
I tried the same terminal entry but typed chromium instead. With no success.
I think in the terminal its called chromium-browser
… unless it’s a flatpak or similar.
I typed ‘sudo apt remove chromium-browser’ and nothing happened, but I saw in the text that was generated in the terminal that it said to try something like ‘sudo apt autoremove’ so I tired that. It it did things that made it look like the browser was removed. But the icon still shows up on the app menu.
I’ve had to reboot (or log out and log back in) to get the icon to go away before.
Is there some command I can type in that will say what everything I have installed it “called” in the terminal? I see that each icon generates a title underneath it. But clearly just copying that title into the terminal doesn’t necessarily call up what that app is technically called.
This should do it, except for flatpaks:
ls /usr/share/applications | awk -F '\\.desktop' ' { print $1}' - | tee applist.txt; exec bash
This prints the list in the terminal and also creates a .txt file for you in the home folder.
On systems that use a standard applications menu, you can enter edit mode (of the menu itself), then check the properties of a particular application to find its package name.
You can also do: apt search followed by a keyword that you think might be in the name. Ex: apt search chromium
This checks both installed and uninstalled packages (and lets you know if its installed).
A combination of both of your suggestions led me to my desired result. Thank you.
