How do I remove CLion-2016.2.3 completely from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS?

Question

I had installed CLion(2016.2.3) IDE from CLion-2016.2.3.tar.gz file. I accidentally deleted the CLion-2016.2.3.tar.gz file and CLion-2016.2.3 folder(which I got after extracting CLion-2016.2.3.tar.gz). Now CLion isn't working. When I ran dpkg --list from terminal, CLion wasn't present in the output. I want to remove CLion completely(all its files, folders, dependencies, etc.(even the configuration files)). How do I remove it completely?

Milamilady

Answer 1

Run the following command in terminal to find all the directories and files containing clion in their name :-

$ sudo find . -iname "*clion*"

Then delete the directories and files you have found.

To delete directories/files, go to the location of that directory/file in terminal using cd and run the following command :-

$ sudo rm -rf DIRECTORY_NAME/FILE_NAME

Sower

You could also run sudo find . -iname "*clion*" | xargs rm -rf to do it in one go – Illusion

Answer 2

Simple Steps are :

1. Delete the clion folder you have downloaded and extracted.
2. Remove cache in ~/. using the command : sudo rm -r ~/.Clion.

Morin

Answer 3

Also need remove settings: /home/user/.config/JetBrains

Roughspoken

Answer 4

All Clion's binaries are store inside the folder you deleted.

But Clion sets up preferences at first launch, and you may have a menu icon which is pointing nowhere.

I suggest you run something like find ~ -iname "*clion*" and investigate what is found. If you are using Gnome2 or MATE desktop you will certainly find .desktop files which are the icons you are looking for.

Brotherton

where I do ~ -iname "clion" It shoulds bash: /home/alireza: Is a directory, any idea what that means? – Dylane

Answer 5

You need also to remove settings that are stored in ~/. directory. That's it for Unix/Linux.

Impotent

Answer 6

If you used snap to install you can uninstall using

sudo snap remove --purge clion

Nur