Recently I installed Facebook Messenger in my Ubuntu 14.04 and then I noticed that it is no longer supported in Ubuntu. So I tried to uninstall it. When I checked Software Center I can't find an entry for Facebook Messenger there.

The following are the commands I used to install Facebook Messenger:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install fbmessenger

So how can I uninstall Facebook Messenger ?

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4 Answers

Remove the package "fbmessenger" from the Software Center or run:

sudo apt-get remove fbmessenger

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sudo apt-get remove unity-webapps-facebookmessenger

This worked for me. In fact googleplus, gmail... are all unity-webapps-*

If you don't need the ppa anymore, the best way could be to first install ppa-purge:

sudo apt-get install ppa-purge

and then run:

sudo ppa-purge ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8

this uninstalls all the packages from this ppa, and disables the ppa as well, quite handy if you have a lot of ppas

Run this :

sudo dpkg -r fbmessenger

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