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I have downloaded opera from the website (deb package) and installed it. Now I want to remove it but I don't know how. I tried sudo apt-get remove opera but it didn't work.

Bernmeister
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user159082
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@Thomas W.'s answer didn't work for me on Ubuntu 14.04. I had to use:

sudo dpkg -r opera-stable

And to remove the apt sources file added by Opera:

sudo rm -f /etc/apt/sources.list.d/opera-stable.list
nhylated
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  • What about /etc/apt/sources.list.d/opera-stable.list.save file? Should I remove that also? Isn't there a command that remove all files related to the application, for example sudo apt purge? – ibilgen Feb 20 '21 at 11:42
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When you install via the downloaded .deb binaries/installer and not the opera repository for Opera, then it was installed with dpkg, and not apt-get.

Try using sudo dpkg --remove opera or sudo dpkg -r opera to remove it.

Thomas Ward
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sudo apt-get remove --purge opera-stable

Try this, it's gonna work.

Eliah Kagan
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maneesh reddy
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    duplicate of https://askubuntu.com/a/1113681/ – karel Sep 14 '20 at 12:01
  • Although this is not the same as that earlier answer, since this also removes conffiles (due to --purge), it's not obvious how the difference is important or why this approach is more likely to help, or otherwise better, than that one. You may want to [edit] this to clarify that. – Eliah Kagan Sep 14 '20 at 13:43
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Use 

dpkg -l | grep opera

to find out proper package name. For me opera-stable then

sudo apt-get remove opera-stable
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