You can see it on Figures.Install Teamviewer on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus 64-bit using Ubuntu command line, Of course it works on Linux Mint ( see Linux Mint 18 beta release ) and other Ubuntu derivatives.Īt first open your terminal (Ctrl + alt + t) and download teamviewer*.deb wget

I use dpkg -l | grep -i teamviewer command to find the package name of teamviewer. What if you do not remember the exact name of the package you want to remove? Don't worry! The Tab will help you to autocomplete the name of the package. I think you guys understand now that to remove TeamViewer 8 from my ubuntu machine I have to remove the package with its configuration files.

'Debian packages can be converted into other packages and vice versa using alien, and created from source code using CheckInstall or Debian Package Maker.' (Wikipedia) These archives may be compressed with gzip (zlib), Bzip2, or xz programs and the deb package is handled by dpkg or other programs such as apt/aptitude, the Ubuntu Software Center, Synaptic or Gdebi. But, the question is, how? Do you know what a deb package is? Since is very important to know what a deb package is I am explaining it to you in two or three short sentences.Ī deb package is an archive that contains two tar archives. I have installed TeamViewer 8 from a deb package and I am not using it anymore, so I decided to uninstall this software, but I want to do it from terminal since I love it, and make me understand how things work from a low level. Now let me introduce you guys to my simple problem. Practice, practice and practice and one day you will feel the joy of using the terminal for almost everything. Have you ever used your terminal to uninstall your programs in your ubuntu machine? It is not that hard! Terminal is real power and you need to learn it.

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