Uninstalling software with synaptic package manager:
1. Open synaptic package manager
With menu (Install/Remove Software) or with this terminal command:

2. Search for software in the search box.
3. Right click each software you want to uninstall and mark them for removal. If you want to remove the software along with configuration files mark them for complete removal.
4. After marking for removal, click on Apply to start uninstalling all the marked applications.

Uninstalling applications with Terminal:
Before you start to uninstall applications, you must find out the exact package name of the application you are about to remove.
Check this tutorial to see how to use apt-cache and aptitude to find out the exact applications's package name:
https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/index...opic=734.0

There are two ways to do this:
1. To remove package enter this command: (Replace package_name with the package name of the application you want to remove)
2. To remove package along with all configuration files, enter:

autoremove is used to remove packages that were automatically installed to satisfy dependencies for other packages and are now no longer needed.

How to remove PPA's:
Before you remove or disable PPA's you need to know a few things.
Make sure you only disable or remove PPA's you added, not any others that came with your distribution.
Disabling a PPA means you won't receive any updates from that PPA anymore, but it does not remove any installed / upgraded packages.
The advantage of disabling a PPA instead of removing it is that you can easily re-enable it.
If you remove them you will not receive any critical system updates and you will not be able to install any applications from that PPA.
Be careful about removing PPA's. If you remove a PPA and the application is not removed, you won't get updates for that application automatically (or at least not when you do sudo apt-get upgrade). You will not receive updates and security fixes, bug fixes, etc. You can do it, but is on your own risk.

There are two ways to do this:
1. Using the graphical user interface:
Run this command to start Software & Updates GUI
Now you can disable or remove PPA's.
To disable a PPA, uncheck the box next to the PPA you want to disable.
Remember to disable both lines: the main and the source code line.
In the same way you can also re-enable a PPA.
To remove a PPA, select the ones you want to remove and click on Remove.
2. Removing PPA from the command line:
To remove PPA's use the --remove flag, similar to how the PPA was added:
Optionally, you can delete the .list files from /etc/apt/sources.list.d directory. Not recommended for beginers!
Then when you have noted the name of that PPA (e.g. targetppa.list), you can enter:

To find out the PPA to which a package belongs to, enter:
For example:
Output
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umplayer:
  Installed: 0.98-1~trusty~NoobsLab.com
  Candidate: 0.98-1~trusty~NoobsLab.com
  Version table:
    0.98-1~trusty~NoobsLab.com 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/noobslab/apps/ubuntu/ trusty/main i386 Packages
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From this we can see that the ppa is ppa:noobslab/apps
If it is missing you have probably installed it using .deb method or from source or you removed/disabled the PPA.

How to purge a PPA
If it's not installed, first you must install ppa-purge.
Purging a PPA means not only to disable the PPA, but also to downgrade any packages you've upgraded from that PPA, to the version available in the official distribution's repositories.
If there are no such packages in the distribution's repositories they will be removed.
In order to purge a PPA type the folowing command, just change the owner/ppa to whatewer you need.
You can downgrade/remove all the packages from a repository with this command:

How to uninstall software you installed from source code:
cd into the directory you compiled the application an then enter:
or
If the app was installed as root.
But this will work only if the developer of the package has taken care of making a good uninstall rule.

In the future to avoid that kind of problems try to use checkinstall instead of make install when you compile an aplication whenever possible.
It will create and install a deb file that you can then uninstall using your favorite package manager.
To install checkinstall, enter:
Instead of
you will use
The installed package can then also easily be removed via Synaptic or via Terminal.

I'm having some problems with my Linux Lite, whenever I watch a Youtube video above 480p, the video is delayed and skips to catch up with the audio. Direct* Wine games only show grey screens for a few seconds, then they crash to the desktop, OpenGL games also seem to run slowly. Only Glide games work as they should be on my PC. I'm using latest version (1.7.24) of wine, by the way, and run games through PlayOnLinux, but the same problem occur when I install/run games without it.

All of these issues seem to relate to my graphics card (AMD E-300), and that I don't have a Linux driver for it. I did a little research,and found this, but when I downloaded it and attempted to install it, it asked me to reboot, so I did, and it completely messed up the OS! It was showing the Ubuntu splash/loading screen and just hung there. I has to completely reinstall Linux Lite to fix the problem!

So what do I do now? Where/how can I get a working Linux driver for my graphics card installed?

Hello, I am new to Linux, and I recently installed Linux Lite on my old laptop, which has Windows 7 installed on it, and Linux Lite blows Windows 7 out of the water! it's so much faster and more reliable than Windows 7! It makes my 3-4 year old laptop feel brand new again!

I'm going to build a new PC in a month or so, with the highest end specs possible, and having it dual-boot multiple OSes, and it's looking very likely that Linux Lite will be it's main OS! I'll get myself the DVD and Case badge from the LL store when I get to doing that!
Which raises the question, what Graphics Cards have drivers that support Linux? Preferably AMD ones, after hearing about an apparent scandal Nvidia were doing with publishers to lie/exaggerate about game requirements, I'm not buying another Nvidia card if I can help it! Does there exist a list of cards that support Linux?

It isn't perfect, however, I have a few issues, which I might end up making a new topic for, unless it's fine to post them here?

The Linux Lite Welcome Screen is a great addition and will be very helpful to new Linux users!  8)

Dear LL Team,

I have been successfully been installing LL2 in my USB & USB HDD and its working fine, except following issue;

1.When installed in USB HDD i configured one of the extended partition as FAT32 and gave the mount point as Windows the software installs and at reboot the grub runs and displays the standard LL boot options and then once booted to LL2 it goes blank further OS doesn't get loaded.

2.I reinstalled the same with all extended partitions as ext4 format it works fine.

I tried this n number of times the above 2 options the result was same, right now i working with the option 2, but i want to configure one of the partitions as FAT32.

Pl help me in this 

Arun

I use LinuxLite on 2 systems and love it!

I am helping a French friend to move from Windows, and I would like to be able to point him to any and all support and documentation in French.

I know of "ubuntu-fr.org", and I know that Linux Mint is headed by a Frenchman and has pretty good support, but I wondered if there is any LinuxLite specific help available for French speakers?

All help gratefully accepted!

Mintstick is a GUI to write .img or .iso files to a USB Key. It can also format them.

Here is how to install it. You will have to use the command line (because the word Terminal is, apparently, scary for some people  )
1. Download the package file

2. Check if the output of the folowing command is f0116fa08ec827df80f677c02831d02d
If it is go to the next step.
If it's not go to step 4 and then go to step 1
MD5sum: f0116fa08ec827df80f677c02831d02d
3. Install the package
4. Remove the package file
That's it. Now open the whisker menu > accessories and you'll see USB Stick Formatter and USB Image Writer.

You can also setup a custom action in Thunar for the USB image writer.
1. Open the Thunar file manager
2. Click on Edit and then on Configure custom actions
3. Add A new custom action by clicking on a '+' button
4. Enter this in the text boxes:
Name: Write to usb
Description: Selects .iso or .img file for writing to the usb drive.
Command:
Icon: You can skip this or choose your the icon of your choice.
5. Click on Appearance Conditions tab
6. In the File pattern enter:
7. Check 'Other files' and confirm by clicking on OK.
To use this to write files from the Desktop you will have to log out and back in.
Now you can right-click on any .iso or .img file and then write that file to usb drive.

new install of LL2.0 i did a terminal  sudo lshw -C display  which shows my Ati HD4850 card  BUT when i "update drivers" i get no drivers found. soo? what should i do?? i have updated the OS.. 
description: VGA compatible controller
      product: RV770 [Radeon HD 4850]
      vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
      physical id: 0
      bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
      version: 00
      width: 64 bits
      clock: 33MHz
      capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
      configuration: driver=radeon latency=0
      resources: irq:45 memory:d0000000-dfffffff memory:fd9e0000-fd9effff ioport:be00(size=256) memory:fd900000-fd91ffff

Don't consider myself as being "geeky" by definition...just someone who likes to learn and adapt to eventually become adept in a process. Linux is providing this opportunity,and, one really must needs say thank you. 
In my excitement to "get going" with a new distro made a mistake with the update process that proved to be quite elusive in finding the correct answer.  Found the answer here after hours and hours of searching and rewording. Been down this road before, was confident the answer was simple and just needed some more time to find.  There is was, someone had a similar problem and the last post provided the key. All is well now
LinuxLite...this one's a keeper! Kind regards to all and have a great day!

Basically, I'm looking for software that will allow me to put songs from my iPod (Touch, 4th Gen, if that makes a difference ) onto my PC. And also be able to add / delete songs from there as well...
I've tried this "gtkpod" thing, but I can't get it to work. The "Assistant" I believe they call it, doesn't pop up

If anyone has any advice, it'd be greatly appreciated