How do I uninstall Picasa?
This depends in large part on how you installed Picasa for Linux.
Systems like Red Hat, Fedora, SuSE, and Mandriva use the Red Hat Package Manager (RPM)
format. If you selected this format, you should use your system tools to remove
the 'picasa' package. From a root console, that would be:
It comes in several flavors; read on to see if you can find one that matches your system.
We only provide instructions to uninstall Picasa from the
command line here. If you want to uninstall Picasa with your
Linux distribution's GUI tools, please consult their
documentation.
rpm --erase picasa
To check if you used the Red Hat Package Manager to install Picasa, you can run this command from the console:
rpm -q picasaIf it is installed, the output looks like:
picasa-version_numberIf it is not installed, the output looks like:
package picasa is not installed
Systems like Debian, Ubuntu, and Xandros use the Debian package format. If you installed with this format, you should use your system tools to remove the 'picasa' package. From a root console, that would be:
dpkg --purge picasa
To check if you used the Debian package format to install Picasa, you can run this command from the console:
dpkg -s picasaIf it is installed, the output looks like:
Package: picasaIf it is not installed, the output looks like:
Status: install ok installed
...
Package: picasa
Status: purge ok not-installed
...
cd $HOME
rm -rf .google/picasa/3.0