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Thread: How to remove this "Wonderful" program from Ubuntu 11.10

  1. #1
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    Default How to remove this "Wonderful" program from Ubuntu 11.10

    It is really to bad you are not actively fixing the issues on Linux platform.
    I now have an App that does not work. (No WLAN Adapter) and cannot be removed using Software Center.
    (I use the SC to install the packages)
    I originally used the two packages for Deb from here. https://github.com/metageek-llc/inSS...form/downloads 0.1.1.0429-1.i386 and the patch. Program did not even launch. no way to remove it.

    Then I found this inssider_0.1.1.1111_i386 (for Ubuntu 11.10).deb after hours of searching here https://github.com/metageek-llc/inSS...2011.10%29.deb. Downloaded and SC now reported an upgrade. Applied it, and now it Launches the App, but is useless without an adapter. After reading through the support forums it is evident that nothing is really going to be addressed in the "Newer" linux platforms. So, I would like to remove this "program".

    However, the only option in SC is "Reinstall".

    Please provide CLI instructions for manually removing this Wonderful wonderful program.

    Thanks.

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    To remove Inssider you should just need:

    sudo apt-get purge inssider

    or at least that's how I've just done it, it will ask for your login password to authorise removing the software. To find out the name of the application to purge (or remove either will do) use:

    apt-cache search inssider

    this gave me the output:

    inssider - A cross-platform extensible Wi-Fi scanner.

    hence the first bit gives the application name to remove. Hope this helps. I too am dissapointed to find it no longer works, so am on the lookout for an alternative - if you find one let me know.
    Last edited by aptanet; 03-05-2012 at 09:20 AM. Reason: Emphasise commands

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