How to uninstall or remove libprotobuf-java software package from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)

How to uninstall or remove libprotobuf-java software package from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)

You can uninstall or removes an installed libprotobuf-java package itself from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) through the terminal,

$ sudo apt-get remove libprotobuf-java 

Uninstall libprotobuf-java including dependent package

If you would like to remove libprotobuf-java and it's dependent packages which are no longer needed from Ubuntu,

$ sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove libprotobuf-java 
Use Purging libprotobuf-java

If you use with purge options to libprotobuf-java package all the configuration and dependent packages will be removed.

$ sudo apt-get purge libprotobuf-java 

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 libprotobuf-java 

See Also,

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