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How to Uninstall a Program Whose Content Already Deleted?

Chloe Bennett • • 2 min read
How to Uninstall a Program Whose Content Already Deleted?

i'm new to Ubuntu Really need help in this problem Now i installed old version of a program that used a port for its processes , i deleted the folder of the program by right click .. remove and didn't know that it has any files in other place !! and didn't know that may be a process using port

i installed new version of the program and every time i ran the program , old version folder created and empty !!

Now i want to delete old version folder completely in right way i searched for PID of the old version but it gave nothing !! sure because i deleted the folder of the program , HOW can i solve this

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first run sudo apt-get autoremove in case there are some non used packages left

then sudo rmdir /path/to/folder inorder to ReMove the dir of the folder.

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