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How To Uninstall openjdk-8-jre-headless On Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
To uninstall openjdk-8-jre-headless just follow these instructions.
Are you having problems? You can always add openjdk-8-jre-headlessagain by following the instructions at this link.
Uninstall just openjdk-8-jre-headless
http://installion.co.uk/ubuntu/xenial/main/o/openjdk-8-jre-headless/uninstall/index.htmlOpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspot JIT (headless)Ubuntu 16.04 LTSjava8u77-b03-3ubuntu3sudo apt-get remove openjdk-8-jre-headless
This will remove just the openjdk-8-jre-headless package itself.
Uninstall openjdk-8-jre-headless and its dependencies
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove openjdk-8-jre-headless
This will remove the openjdk-8-jre-headless 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 openjdk-8-jre-headless then this will work.
Caution! Purged config/data can not be restored by reinstalling the package.
sudo apt-get purge openjdk-8-jre-headless
Or similarly, like this openjdk-8-jre-headless
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove openjdk-8-jre-headless
Package Data
| Package | openjdk-8-jre-headless |
| Version | 8u77-b03-3ubuntu3 |
| Maintainer | OpenJDK Team <[email protected]> |
| Home page | http://openjdk.java.net/ |
| Description | OpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspot JIT (headless) |
| Distro | ubuntu |
| Release | xenial |
| Repo | main |
| Section | java |