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How do I get rid of all of these duplicates?

rated 0 times [ 7] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 978 / 1 Year ago, fri, december 30, 2022, 10:54:07

Please be gentle, I am new to Linux. I know that everything is handled by package managers like snap, apt, flatpak, etc. but I have no clue which one of these package managers each duplicate app is a part of, so I can't run the command to delete it. There are ways to list the apps, but I have no clue which icon on my Gnome apps corresponds to the listed items in the package manager. From the icons alone, there is no way to right click and have it just tell you "That icon is the snap one." This is important because some of the icons do not work, while some of them do, and some of them are different versions than others. I have duplicates of:

A bunch of random LibreOffice apps (Idk which one is the new version or the old version. One says 7.3 and the other just says LibreOffice)

Arduino IDE (one works, one doesn't)

PPSSPP (One of them has my save data, but I only know it by the app location in the Gnome apps)

If you know of good tutorials to figure out which app is located where in files/package manager, linking that would be chill too. I apologize if this is a dumb question or too simple, I am just really struggling with finding out how to do it. I already know how to list the apps for snap, apt, etc., my struggle is just figuring out which one the app is. Thank you so much!

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answered 1 Year ago gigglcept · Accepted Answer

I guess a good tool for you would be the Synaptic Package Manager. You can install it in most Ubuntu distros with:

sudo add-apt-repository universe

sudo apt update

sudo apt install synaptic

Synaptic basically allows you to manage your packages without using the command line. You can easily check for duplicates and uninstall the obsolete versions.

If that doesn't help, then you should probably do a clean install of each of those apps. The save states for PPSSPP should be in the ~/.config/ppsspp folder, so you can back up before uninstalling.