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[SOLVED]conky delete

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I've installed conky-all through the terminal to play around with it and realized it's too much effort and fiddling around just so the screen looks pretty ect.
So deleted it again through terminal (apt remove conky-all and apt purge conky-all) . But now conky manager is still stuck in my menu under accessories and I can't seem to get rid of it. I've deleted the conky file in .local/share/applications. I've looked at synaptic packages but it shows its not installed.
How can I get rid of the menu item?
It doesn't bother me really it just bugs me that it's there and I can't get rid of it lol.

Thanks
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Re: conky delete

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conky and conky-manager are separate packages entirely.

If you're on Mint 18.x:

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apt purge conky-manager
If you're on Mint 19.x, where conky-manager does not install from default repo, but added some 3rd party ppa and/or did compile tweaks:

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apt purge conky-manager
#then you can remove ppa source using "software source" program
If you're using conky-manager2:

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cd conky-manager2
sudo make uninstall
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Re: conky delete

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thanks ,but none of that worked.
i already tried purge conky manager ,it says unable to locate package conky-manager.
i tried cd conky-manager2 ,it says no such file or directory.
i've looked at all the conky things in software manager , its not installed (conky-manager.. there's no such package)

this is mind boggling lol
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Re: conky delete

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jp14 wrote: Fri Apr 10, 2020 3:48 am this is mind boggling lol
You can try sudo apt remove --purge conky*
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Re: conky delete

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jp@jp----:~$ sudo apt remove --purge conky*
[sudo] password for jp:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'conky-all-dbg' for glob 'conky*'
Note, selecting 'conky-std-dbg' for glob 'conky*'
Note, selecting 'conky-all' for glob 'conky*'
Note, selecting 'conky-cli' for glob 'conky*'
Note, selecting 'conky' for glob 'conky*'
Note, selecting 'conky-cli-dbg' for glob 'conky*'
Note, selecting 'conky-std' for glob 'conky*'
Package 'conky' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'conky-all' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'conky-all-dbg' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'conky-cli' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'conky-cli-dbg' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'conky-std' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'conky-std-dbg' is not installed, so not removed
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libportmidi0 libsmpeg0 python-numpy python-pygame
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
jp@jp----:~$



this is what i get then...
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Re: conky delete

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Look at the output of ls -l /usr/share/applications and if you see some conky thing there copy the name of the .desktop file then run sudo rm /usr/share/applications/paste-the-filename-here

That should remove it from the menu if there was one there. Don't ask me why the desktop file wasn't removed during the uninstall.
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thank you MrEen ,that did the trick!
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Re: [SOLVED]conky delete

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Well, in that case, check this:

if you get functional output other than "no access - file or directory does not exist"

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ls /usr/bin/conky-manager
then run:

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sudo /usr/bin/conky-manager-uninstall

and just the same in case of conky manager 2:

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ls /usr/bin/conky-manager2
then run:

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sudo /usr/bin/conky-manager2-uninstall
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