Anyone know of a way to remove Steam from Ubuntu 12.04? Looked around the net but could not find an straight forward solution. Thanks.
8 Answers
You can use Ubuntu Software Center to uninstall or Open Terminal and execute the following command:
sudo apt-get remove steam steam-launcher
Purge Steam Perfectly with Configuration files with the following:
sudo apt-get purge steam steam-launcher
Never forget to delete its directory located at home folder:
rm -rf ~/.local/share/Steam && rm -rf ~/.steam
The .deb package is just a wrapper. Steam's launcher installs itself to ~/.local/share/Steam and can be over 1GiB so make sure you remove it.
sudo apt-get purge steam
sudo apt-get purge steam-launcher
cd ~/.local/share && rm -rf Steam
rm ~/.steampath
rm ~/.steampid
You may have only one of "steam" or "steam-launcher".
Removing Steam using the Ubuntu Software Centre:
Open the Ubuntu Software Centre, by clicking on the appropriate icon in the launcher, or opening the dash and searching for it.
Search for "Steam" in the Ubuntu Software Centre.
Select it, and click "Remove"
This will remove Steam from your system. Only system files, however, will be removed, user files will not. For most programs, user files are very small and not worth worrying about, but for Steam, they include all your downloaded games, and can be quite large. To delete your user files:
Open Nautilus, the default file explorer.
Click "View", "Show Hidden Files", or press Ctrl-H.
Navigate to
.local/share/and delete thesteamfolder.
