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How to Remove ffmpeg completely in Ubuntu 13.10?

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I tried this guide
to install ffmpeg, but now I want to remove it completely from Ubuntu 13.10, but when I did that guide to remove, ffmpeg is still there!
How to remove it exactly?

after removing ffmpeg I see this output again:

deniz@deniz-Ubuntu:~/Downloads$ ffmpeg

ffmpeg version git-2013-11-15-995f450 Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the FFmpeg developers

  built on Nov 15 2013 18:32:56 with gcc 4.8 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.8.1-10ubuntu8)

  configuration: --disable-yasm

  libavutil      52. 53.100 / 52. 53.100

  libavcodec     55. 43.100 / 55. 43.100

  libavformat    55. 21.100 / 55. 21.100

  libavdevice    55.  5.100 / 55.  5.100

  libavfilter     3. 91.100 /  3. 91.100

  libswscale      2.  5.101 /  2.  5.101

  libswresample   0. 17.104 /  0. 17.104

Hyper fast Audio and Video encoder

usage: ffmpeg [options] [[infile options] -i infile]... {[outfile options]     outfile}...



Use -h to get full help or, even better, run 'man ffmpeg'

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answered 2 Years ago fishutt · Accepted Answer

Execute this command:

sudo dpkg -l | grep ffmpeg

If this command returns any output then it means that you've installed it and doesn't removed completely. Now you can remove all ffmpeg using following command:

sudo apt-get autoremove $(dpkg -l | grep ffmpeg | awk '{print $2}' | tr '

' ' ')

sudo apt-get --purge remove $(dpkg -l | grep ffmpeg | awk '{print $2}' | tr '

' ' ')

Edit

man ffmpeg opening manual doesn't mean that it was there. It was because some of the configuration files remained in system when you un-install the program. You can delete them but it is not recommended. I'm posting the command to search all the files in your system matching with ffmpeg and delete them all. But remember it is not recommended to do so..

sudo find / | grep -w ffmpeg | sudo xargs rm -r -f

It should remove all the ffmpeg files and also you'll not be able to open the manual again.