How to uninstall things installed with dpkg?

[Bill Dengler(arch Gnu/Linux)]

Or dpkg -r packagename

Bill
On 05/19/13 13:12, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 19 May 2013 17:54, Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I downloaded Apache OpenOffice and installed it a while ago on my
>> Ubuntu 12.04 system. Now I ran into some dependency issues when
>> installing a package that also started to install LibreOffice for some
>> strange reason.
>> I have tried a lot of things to get out of this ”dependency hell”, but
>> nothing helped so far. Next thing to try is to uninstall Apache
>> OpenOffice (3.4), but I can't figure out how to do it.
>> I still have the installation files (a lot of deb files) and I used
>> dpkg -i o* in the DEBS folder to install it, plus the same in the
>> DEBS/desktop-integration folder.
>> But uninstalling it doesn't seem too obvious to me…
> When in doubt, cheat.
>
> Run Synaptic. If it's not there, install it. Enter "openoffice" as
> your search string. Press Return.
>
> Now, click the column header of installation status to sort all the
> installed packages to the top.
>
> Select them all. (Hold down Shift, click the first, then the last.)
>
> Right-click and pick "remove".
>
> Click Apply.
>
> Done.
>
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