How do I uninstall a program installed with the Appimage Launcher?

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Iago Dahlem picture Iago Dahlem · Apr 28, 2017 · Viewed 52.8k times · Source

So basically I installed a program with AppImage in Linux Elementary OS Loki, but now I have no idea how to uninstall it, and I didn't find anything in the documentation of AppImage.

Answer

probono picture probono · Apr 28, 2017

Since an AppImage is not "installed", you don't need to "uninstall" it. Just delete the AppImage file and the application is gone. Additionally you may want to remove menu entry by deleting the desktop file from $HOME/.local/share/applications/.

Files and directories with names starting with a full stop (dot) (.example) are hidden - you might need to turn hidden files visible. You can probably find it somewhere in the settings of the file manager you use or in many file managers you can do that with ctrl+h.

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