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Uninstall an app from the terminal
Software Engineering Team Lead and Director of Cloudsure
I installed an application. It misbehaved.
I wanted to try out a time tracking app. It should let me track reminders and record activity spent in meetings, out-of-office and on tasks I am working on, etc.
I need to be able to interact with it in the GUI but I couldn't. It appeared to be running in the background but I couldn't find it in the processes.
When I wanted to uninstall it, it didn't list in Software. I tried to reinstall it but, as expected, it moaned that the application was already installed. I didn't get an option to uninstall it from that view.
Now I had an app that didn't run properly with a process I couldn't find and no matter what I tried, I couldn't uninstall it. There had to be a way.
I have Fedora release 28 (Twenty Eight) installed.
I was able to grep through my dnf packages and find the package I was looking
for using what I thought it's name should be.
dnf list | grep <the-possible-app-name>I removed the app based on the actual package name in the dnf repository.
sudo dnf remove <package-name>I thought something went wrong with the install so I tried it again but it didn't work so I guess I can't run it on Fedora.