[PLUG] Ubuntu 12.04 -- uninstall something installed from a .deb

[Bill Barry]

On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Dick Steffens <dick at dicksteffens.com> wrote:
> This morning Google Earth decided to give me an error message. Googling,
> I found that other experienced the same thing with GE 6 on Ubuntu 12.04.
> Their solution was to upgrade to GE 7. I did that and found that the
> problem went away. But upgrade is really the wrong term here. I have
> both 6 and 7 installed. How do I uninstall 6? If I right-click on the
> .deb file it offers to "Open with Ubuntu Software Center." But I'm only
> given the option to reinstall. The file menu of Ubuntu Software Center
> has the option Remove grayed out.
>

dpkg --get-selections | grep -i earth

will give you a list of packages containing the phrase earth and
whether they are installed or not.