How to Remove Adobe Air Application

Done palying with that app? Application misbehaving? It’s time to get rid of old air and get some fresh air.

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Done palying with that app? Application misbehaving? It’s time to get rid of old air and get some fresh air.

Unfortunately, removing an Adobe Air application is a bit more involved than it should. If you still have the .air file that you downloaded, good for you. Just double click on the file and select uninstall.

If you are like me, you would delete the installation file after a successfull install. What do you do now?

You need to drop to a terminal. Most probably, you have installed the application to /opt folder. Type these commands.

sudo dpkg -S /opt/*

You’ll get an output like this

adobeair1.0: /opt/Adobe AIR
com.adobe.hoyt.mapcache.419d633a757e8b26dd2bdb301927ba7ba7490f38.1: /opt/AIR Examples
jp.clockmaker.airicongenerator.785adfa7d3f9cf50a24cbff5b86ab182b877b02c.1: /opt/ClockMaker
cxchromium: /opt/cxchromium
dpkg: /opt/lampp not found.

For example, to remove the Air Icon Generator application, enter this.(Copy and paste would be good now.)

sudo dpkg -P jp.clockmaker.airicongenerator.785adfa7d3f9cf50a24cbff5b86ab182b877b02c.1

and get an output some thing like this

(Reading database … 132489 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing jp.clockmaker.airicongenerator.785adfa7d3f9cf50a24cbff5b86ab182b877b02c.1 …

That’s it. Your application is now uninstalled

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5 Comments

  1. Tom Chiverton added these pithy words on October 14, 2008 | Permalink

    Umm, or just use a nice GUI of your choice i.e. the same one you manage any other package with.

  2. Wan Fahmi added these pithy words on October 15, 2008 | Permalink

    That’s the thing Tom, somehow it’s not listed on Synaptic. Maybe I stuffed it some how. But this method removed the apps

  3. Chris Jones added these pithy words on February 5, 2009 | Permalink

    I found that it was much easier to just go back to the website I downloaded it from and re-download the .AIR file.

  4. somekool added these pithy words on April 9, 2009 | Permalink

    sounds like I do not want to install an Adobe air application EVER.

  5. Chris Wyatt added these pithy words on May 14, 2009 | Permalink

    This is simple enough, I still can’t believe there isn’t a GUI for this though.

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