Uninstall / purge vivaldi:

johanperjulius

I have the browser vivaldi that I want to remove from my ubuntu focal fossa. I follow the steps outlined on Vivaldis webpage: https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/install-update/how-to-uninstall-vivaldi/#:~:text=Select Apps %26 Features from the,pop-up button to confirm.[vivaldis_page][1]

I succesfully remove the vivaldi folder and empty my trash through the command line. However, when I open my launchpad the vivaldi icon is still there and if I press on it the browser open. Also, every time I start my computer the ubuntu software updater asks me to update vivaldi to the latest version.

I also tried this after doing the steps above but nothing related to vivaldi is found:

sudo apt-get --purge remove vivaldi

What can I do? Any help is hugely appreciated, this issue and browser has been plauging my linux for too long

reni

@johanperjulius
How did you install vivaldi?
Do you have a vivaldi repo in your /etc/apt/sources.list?
In Ubuntu you should only install programs with "apt-get" and uninstall them again with "apt-get".
Never just delete any directories.
Try to reinstall vivaldi with
apt-get install vivaldi
and then with
apt-get --purge remove vivaldi
to remove.

Dancer18

@johanperjulius

EDIT:// just follow the steps @reni posted.

Oh that's a pitty. Don't know why they recommend to delete the Vivaldi-folder (in Linux). At least you have to deinstall Vivaldi BEFORE deleting the folder.

I had this issue sometimes, in Windows and Linux, when deleting program-folders before deinstalling the program.

In this case the deinstallation can't work properly.
In Linux (Ubuntu) you often can solve it by using the synaptic tool instead of the software-manager to find any related packages.

As there is only 1 package there for Vivaldi, you could look for it if it still exists.

One possible solution could be, to INSTALL Vivaldi again and then

deinstall it properly either by Synaptic or by software-manager or terminal.
delete Vivaldi-folder if it is still there. Maybe it isn't.

Priest72

Does your file manager have a search function.?
if so....
type "vivaldi" in the search field and all vivaldi entries should appear.

johanperjulius

@reni

Thanks for answering! I tried this, reinstalling from the repository, and when entering the second command the response is "unable to locate package vivaldi". However, when I run vivaldi in command line the browser opens.

I also tried this:

find . -name '*vivaldi*' -exec rm -f {} \;

and although the command actually works, whenever I click a link vivaldi opens (somehow it has managed to become the default solution for links.

johanperjulius

@Dancer18

Will try this one, thanks!

Zalex108

@johanperjulius

Hi,

Are you uninstalling to fix a problem with V?

johanperjulius

@Zalex108 No, uninstalling because I didn't use it, but updates kept wanting to be installed taking up a lot of memory.

johanperjulius

@Dancer18

The synaptic package manager worked, thanks! Didn't know about it before.

Now the program doesn't start when clicking on links or entering vivaldi in command line.

However, in synaptic I can still see this (when clicking it says "mark for installing?" so vivaldi is indeed currently uninstalled.

Do completely removing vivaldi from the search result, do you think I need to disconnect from the vivaldi repos or why do vivaldi still show up in synaptic when I search for it even though obviously succesfully removed?

Zalex108

@johanperjulius

Ok.

Can't add an advice for Linux.
About Synaptics, maybe you added the PPA?

Dancer18

@johanperjulius
Don't worry that it is listed. As long as it isn't installed you don't get any update notifications.
If you want to remove the source you can find it in synaptic too.

Click >Settings >Repositories >Additional Repositories
and delete the Vivaldi entries.