Hi, Skype did lunch after updating to 17.10, so I went to the software boutique, to try to fix it but I ended up installing the new version, which works, which is great, but now I have 2 Skype in my application list. How can I uninstall only the old one?
Thanks!
I guess, if it was me, I would first remove the Software Boutique version via its own internal remove button.
Then, remove all/any other versions via the terminal:
sudo apt-get remove skype
sudo apt-get purge skype
Then, go back to the Software Boutique and re-install the version of Skype from there
If, for any reason, after doing all of the above, there are launchers of the old, non-Software-Boutique, version of Skype left in the menu, go into the menu editor and remove them.
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Hi, thanks for the reply!! At the beginning didn't work, then I figure out that the package has another name. So I used:
sudo apt-cache search skype
In this case the name was skypeforlinux, with that I erase the new linux, then I tried with skype-bin, still there, but then I reboot and there was neither skype.
(I put this information because it might be useful to someone else)
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Hi,
install Synaptic and then search for “skype” within that, you can see exactly what packages you have, you can also right click and remove or re-install!.
sudo apt install synaptic
See also:
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