How can I uninstall adobe acroread?

Question

I want to uninstall acroread that I downloaded from adobe's website and installed. How can I do that?

@dadexix86 I installed it through the installer program from the adobe's website. — sawa, Mar 02 '12 at 17:30

score 26 · Answer 1 · answered May 30 '12 at 19:51

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Or if that still doesn't work and returns Package acroread is not installed, so not removed you can try sudo apt-get purge adobereader-enu && sudo apt-get autoremove.

(Taken from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1453166#5)

answered May 30 '12 at 19:51

onse

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My +1 for you ! :) – Pratik Joshi Dec 26 '15 at 16:38
This worked for me on Ubuntu 20.04 – Philippe Delteil Aug 18 '20 at 18:49
This is it, because the package installed from .deb showed the package name adobereader-enu, not adobereader – Sayan Dey Mar 11 '21 at 13:10

score 10 · Accepted Answer · answered May 09 '13 at 11:25

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There is an UNINSTALL script in the same folder where you installed it.

$ locate UNINSTALL
/usr/local/Adobe/Reader9/bin/UNINSTALL

$ cd /usr/local/Adobe/Reader9/bin
$ sudo ./UNINSTALL

Done!

answered May 09 '13 at 11:25

Lennart Regebro

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I also had to remove an icon of Adobe Reader from the list of applications in GNOME. The icon was in ~/.local/share/applications/. It might also be in /usr/share/applications/ – Maksim Dmitriev Oct 03 '14 at 17:06
$ locate UNINSTALL returned nothing in my case. – Gaurav Agarwal Sep 08 '20 at 02:09

score 6 · Answer 3 · edited Feb 07 '15 at 12:34

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I also tried many ways to uninstall adobe reader 9 and this method worked for me

sudo apt-get purge acroread-bin
sudo apt-get autoremove

edited Feb 07 '15 at 12:34

Eric Carvalho

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answered Feb 07 '15 at 12:26

pareekrachit

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This seems to be the only viable solution on 14.04. – Luís de Sousa Dec 31 '15 at 15:35

score 3 · Answer 4 · edited Apr 20 '13 at 16:46

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If you have installed it manually, then you have can run

locate adobereader

Then remove it from there and delete the folder.

edited Apr 20 '13 at 16:46

green

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answered Jun 14 '12 at 17:27

lawal

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score 1 · Answer 5 · edited Mar 24 '21 at 16:20

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I installed Adobe Reader based on video here: https://youtu.be/04-J55bnTLQ Then, I saw the software only allows me to see pdf files, but not to sign them; for uninstall Adobe Reader,it worked for me this:

sudo apt-get purge adobereader-enu && sudo apt-get autoremove

edited Mar 24 '21 at 16:20

tinlyx

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answered Mar 24 '21 at 13:47

Julio Morales

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Good. this worked for me. – yakhyo Jan 05 '23 at 09:26

score 0 · Answer 6 · edited Apr 20 '13 at 16:46

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sudo apt-get remove acroread

or if you have Synaptic installed you can use that as well.

It should also show up in Software Center if your search for it, but I'm not well-versed in Software Center.

edited Apr 20 '13 at 16:46

green

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answered Mar 02 '12 at 17:03

Chuck R

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score 0 · Answer 7 · answered May 15 '19 at 11:11

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sudo rm -Rf /opt/Adobe

Ubuntu 18.04

Try this command, it worked for me.

answered May 15 '19 at 11:11

Zakariae Drabech

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