You can uninstall or removes an installed gqrx-sdr package itself from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) through the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get remove gqrx-sdr
If you would like to remove gqrx-sdr and it's dependent packages which are no longer needed from Ubuntu,
$ sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove gqrx-sdr
If you use with purge options to gqrx-sdr package all the configuration and dependent packages will be removed.
$ sudo apt-get purge gqrx-sdr
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 gqrx-sdr