Installion: How To Uninstall unity On Ubuntu 15.04

How To Uninstall unity On Ubuntu 15.04

To uninstall unity just follow these instructions.

Are you having problems? You can always add unityagain by following the instructions at this link.

sudo apt-get remove unity

This will remove just the unity package itself.

sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove unity

This will remove the unity package and any other dependant packages which are no longer needed.

If you also want to delete your local/config files for unity then this will work.

Caution! Purged config/data can not be restored by reinstalling the package.

sudo apt-get purge unity

Or similarly, like this unity

sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove unity

Package	unity
Version	7.3.2+15.04.20150420-0ubuntu1
Maintainer	Ubuntu Developers <[email protected]>
Home page	https://launchpad.net/unity
Description	Interface designed for efficiency of space and interaction.
Distro	ubuntu
Release	vivid
Repo	main
Section	gnome