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How To Uninstall hal On Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
To uninstall hal just follow these instructions.
Are you having problems? You can always add halagain by following the instructions at this link.
Uninstall just hal
http://installion.co.uk/ubuntu/precise/universe/h/hal/uninstall/index.htmlHardware Abstraction LayerUbuntu 12.04 LTSuniverse/admin0.5.14-8sudo apt-get remove hal
This will remove just the hal package itself.
Uninstall hal and its dependencies
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove hal
This will remove the hal package and any other dependant packages which are no longer needed.
Purging your config/data too
If you also want to delete your local/config files for hal then this will work.
Caution! Purged config/data can not be restored by reinstalling the package.
sudo apt-get purge hal
Or similarly, like this hal
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove hal
Package Data
| Package | hal |
| Version | 0.5.14-8 |
| Maintainer | Ubuntu Developers <[email protected]> |
| Home page | http://hal.freedesktop.org/ |
| Description | Hardware Abstraction Layer |
| Distro | ubuntu |
| Release | precise |
| Repo | universe |
| Section | universe/admin |