How to uninstall or remove kafkacat software package from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

How to uninstall or remove kafkacat software package from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

You can uninstall or removes an installed kafkacat package itself from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) through the terminal,

$ sudo apt-get remove kafkacat 

Uninstall kafkacat including dependent package

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

$ sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove kafkacat 
Use Purging kafkacat

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

$ sudo apt-get purge kafkacat 

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 kafkacat 

See Also,

How to install kafkacat software package from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) ?