You can uninstall or removes an installed libcanberra-gtk-dev package itself from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) through the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get remove libcanberra-gtk-dev
If you would like to remove libcanberra-gtk-dev and it's dependent packages which are no longer needed from Ubuntu,
$ sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove libcanberra-gtk-dev
If you use with purge options to libcanberra-gtk-dev package all the configuration and dependent packages will be removed.
$ sudo apt-get purge libcanberra-gtk-dev
If you use purge options along with auto remove, will be removed everything regarding the package, It's really useful when you want to reinstall again.
$ sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove libcanberra-gtk-dev