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I'm looking for a way to find e.g. the command name for an application that does appear in the dash.



More specifically: I installed the game Costume Quest (from the Double Fine Humble Bundle), and more recently wanted to uninstall it. So I uninstalled it through the Software Center. However, the application still runs, even though the Software Center tells me it's not there.



So I wanted to uninstall it through the command line, but I don't know the package name, or command name. It appears through the dash when I search "Costume Quest", it will run when I click the icon in the dash, but I can't seem to find any file or folder that may give me a hint for the command/package name.



I'm running 13.04, will say more about the hardware if it turns out to be relevant.


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Typed



dpkg -l | grep costume


which returned



ii  costume-quest       0~20130507-0ubuntu1      i386       Halloween adventure [...]


and removed it using



apt-get purge costume-quest


(note that
costume-quest
returned an "unknown command" message)


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