Quote:
Originally Posted by poncedeleon
To delete Brave browser I could go back into Software Manager and uninstall but prefer to do it via the command line. What would be the command to delete Brave but also cleanup any remaining files?
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The note you got is quite unusual. Anyway, deleting it via the package manager shouldn't be an issue. But if you want to do it via the command line, it may be useful to first know what exactly has been installed and where.
On my Xubuntu 22.04, with Brave installed as per the site's link:
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brave-browser --version
returns
Code:
Brave Browser 103.1.41.100
Code:
which brave-browser
returns
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/usr/bin/brave-browser
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zgrep "status installed brave" /var/log/dpkg.log*
returns
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/var/log/dpkg.log.1:2022-07-06 05:41:30 status installed brave-browser:amd64 1.40.113
/var/log/dpkg.log.1:2022-07-13 05:29:05 status installed brave-browser:amd64 1.41.96
/var/log/dpkg.log.1:2022-07-21 05:40:30 status installed brave-browser:amd64 1.41.99
/var/log/dpkg.log.1:2022-07-22 05:32:55 status installed brave-browser:amd64 1.41.100
/var/log/dpkg.log.2.gz:2022-06-28 18:18:25 status installed brave-keyring:all 1.13
/var/log/dpkg.log.2.gz:2022-06-28 18:18:26 status installed brave-browser:amd64 1.40.107
Do you see something similar?
If you do,
first run this simulation (sudo not required)
Code:
apt -s purge brave-keyring
You should see this:
Code:
...
The following packages will be REMOVED:
brave-browser* brave-keyring*
...
Then, to really remove
both packages, run
Code:
sudo apt purge brave-keyring
User-specific config/data is in
~/.config/BraveSoftware. Delete that if you're sure want a clean slate, no bookmarks, no history, no passwords, no cookies, etc ... .
