Uninstall program that's no longer listed in MXPI? [Solved]

[Solon]

This is unusual, and I did not find anything under 'search' on the Forum. Should be an easy fix !!

I've been using a Flatpak called LBRY which I downloaded through the MXPI which accesses a blockchain 'browser' called Odysee. This website allowed videos which were not up to YouTube 'standards' (-- in re the unknown virus of unknown origin). From time to time I would see a video from a well-known YouTube channel that would say that they posted something over on Odysee, since they could not post it on YouTube, and go & watch the video over there. Well, it turns out that the folks running LBRY also dabbled in crypto and too raised funds to get started years ago, and at least one of these activities got them into trouble with the SEC. They were fined, and went out of business in July. At that point they shut down the website.

I still have the program loaded on my computer, it shows up under the Multimedia tab in the Startup menu. And it still loads and starts up, and looks for the website, but of course it finds nothing and just sits there. I tried Right Clicking on the menu listing, but "Uninstall" is not offered!

I was going to "Uninstall" it using MXPI by checking the box from the Flatpak tab. I went on MXPI to the Flatpak tab, typed in LBRY, and nothing came up, since it is no longer available any more as a Flatpak (nor does it appear under any of the other MXPI tabs)... so I am wondering what to do?

I suspect that there is something I can do with a Command Line input, but that is not my forte, and since it is not an "official" MX program, but rather a Flatpak, I thought I should get some (very) specific instructions as to what to type into the command line to uninstall this program (and any associated files) and thus rid my computer of this (now) useless Flatpak program.

For the record, I am not a: Command Line (Linux) user. That being said, I am not afraid to use Yakuake or Konsole, as long as I get directions.

Thanks

P.S. Here is my Quick Info

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System:    Kernel: 6.1.0-2mx-amd64 [6.1.7-1~mx21+1] x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-2mx-amd64 root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash 
           Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.20.5 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 7 dm: SDDM 
           Distro: MX-21.3_KDE_x64 Wildflower September 18  2022 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: Acer product: Aspire A715-42G v: V1.08 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: LN model: Azalea_CAS v: V1.08 serial: <filter> UEFI: Insyde v: 1.08 
           date: 09/15/2021 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT1 charge: 50.1 Wh (100.0%) condition: 50.1/47.8 Wh (104.8%) volts: 12.4 
           min: 11.2 model: LGC AP18C8K type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Full 
CPU:       Info: 6-Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 5500U with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
           arch: Zen 2 family: 17 (23) model-id: 68 (104) stepping: 1 microcode: 8608103 cache: 
           L2: 3 MiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 50307 
           Speed: 1400 MHz min/max: 1400/2100 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1400 
           2: 1400 3: 1404 4: 1400 5: 1700 6: 1400 7: 2862 8: 1700 9: 3244 10: 1294 11: 2100 
           12: 1400 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected 
           Type: l1tf status: Not affected 
           Type: mds status: Not affected 
           Type: meltdown status: Not affected 
           Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected 
           Type: retbleed mitigation: untrained return thunk; SMT enabled with STIBP protection 
           Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl 
           Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
           Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: always-on, RSB 
           filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected 
           Type: srbds status: Not affected 
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA TU117M [GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile / Max-Q] vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI 
           driver: nvidia v: 525.116.04 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1f9d class-ID: 0302 
           Device-2: AMD Lucienne vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: amdgpu v: kernel 
           bus-ID: 05:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:164c class-ID: 0300 
           Device-3: Chicony HD User Facing type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 3-3:3 
           chip-ID: 04f2:b72b class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter> 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.14 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: 
           loaded: amdgpu,ati,nvidia unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa alternate: nv 
           display-ID: :0 screens: 1 
           Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2") 
           s-diag: 582mm (22.9") 
           Monitor-1: eDP res: 1920x1080 hz: 144 dpi: 142 size: 344x194mm (13.5x7.6") 
           diag: 395mm (15.5") 
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD RENOIR (LLVM 14.0.5 DRM 3.49 6.1.0-2mx-amd64) v: 4.6 Mesa 22.0.5 
           direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: AMD Renoir Radeon High Definition Audio vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI 
           driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 05:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1637 class-ID: 0403 
           Device-2: AMD ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor 
           vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Processor driver: N/A 
           alternate: snd_pci_acp3x, snd_rn_pci_acp3x, snd_pci_acp5x, snd_pci_acp6x 
           bus-ID: 05:00.5 chip-ID: 1022:15e2 class-ID: 0480 
           Device-3: AMD Family 17h/19h HD Audio vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI 
           driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 05:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k6.1.0-2mx-amd64 running: yes 
           Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
           vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 2000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 
           chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200 
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: MEDIATEK MT7921 802.11ax PCI Express Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Lite-On 
           driver: mt7921e v: kernel modules: wl port: 2000 bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 14c3:7961 
           class-ID: 0280 
           IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter> 
Bluetooth: Device-1: Lite-On Wireless_Device type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-4:3 
           chip-ID: 04ca:3802 class-ID: e001 serial: <filter> 
           Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: down bt-service: N/A rfk-block: 
           hardware: no software: no address: <filter> 
           Info: acl-mtu: 1021:6 sco-mtu: 240:8 link-policy: rswitch sniff link-mode: slave accept 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 52.52 GiB (5.6%) 
           SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
           ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Western Digital model: WD Blue SN570 1TB 
           size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 
           type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 234110WD temp: 38.9 C scheme: GPT 
Partition: ID-1: / raw-size: 34.18 GiB size: 33.35 GiB (97.56%) used: 20.38 GiB (61.1%) fs: ext4 
           dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5 maj-min: 259:5 
           ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 260 MiB size: 256 MiB (98.46%) used: 55 MiB (21.5%) fs: vfat 
           dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 
           ID-3: /home raw-size: 195.31 GiB size: 191.19 GiB (97.89%) used: 32.09 GiB (16.8%) 
           fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p6 maj-min: 259:6 
Swap:      Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) 
           ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 9.77 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 
           dev: /dev/nvme0n1p7 maj-min: 259:7 
Sensors:   Message: No sensor data found. Is lm-sensors configured? 
Repos:     Packages: 2475 note: see --pkg apt: 2469 lib: 1384 flatpak: 6 
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main contrib non-free
           2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-earth-pro.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb/ stable main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ bullseye main non-free
           2: deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ bullseye ahs
Info:      Processes: 261 Uptime: 27m wakeups: 2 Memory: 7.11 GiB used: 1.6 GiB (22.5%) 
           Init: SysVinit v: 2.96 runlevel: 5 default: 5 tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 
           alt: 10 Client: shell wrapper v: 5.1.4-release inxi: 3.3.06 
Boot Mode: UEFI

[jeffreyC]

Weird, the Odysee website is accessible from where I live in the US.

[Solon]

Weird, the Odysee website is accessible from where I live in the US.

I see what you mean; I simply did a search for Odysee and it comes up; HOWEVER, it comes up as a web-page inside my regular browser!

It was never available like that in the past, you always had to "start" LBRY first, because that was the blockchain part that initialized access. Then from within LBRY you were granted a "wallet" and then were able to access Odysee. (There was a whole bunch of blockchain and crypto currency stuff that you could use to 'monetize' and give income to creators. I did not understand it and never used that feature.)

I guess it is now just another website out there for creators, like YouTube or Rumble. Good to know, jeffreyC, thanks!

BUT, I still have the defunct program: LBRY on my computer, and want to remove it.

Would be an interesting story how Odysee rose like a Phoenix from the ashes of its former self!

[Eadwine Rose]

Is it found in Synaptic maybe?

[Charlie Brown]

https://fostips.com/remove-flatpak-apps-free-up-disk/

https://forum.manjaro.org/t/root-tip-ho ... app/104718

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flatpak uninstall io.lbry.lbry-app

[BitterTruth]

First things first. Stop it from autostarting on startup. Just delete it's entry from Session and Startup -----> Application AutoStart tab and then uninstall should be cleaner than trying to uninstall whilst it is still loaded in ram.

[Solon]

First things first. Stop it from autostarting on startup. Just delete it's entry from Session and Startup -----> Application AutoStart tab and then uninstall should be cleaner than trying to uninstall whilst it is still loaded in ram.

Good idea, but when I checked (since I never set it up for autostart), it did NOT start automatically. I had to find and load it each time.
Thanks for the tip, as I was unaware of this feature, and that it could occupy RAM if so done. Also helps explain my RAM level fluctuations within Conky, something I've always wondered about. Thanks for the heads-up!

Is it found in Synaptic maybe?

I installed Synaptic (finally), a program that the Developers and Administrators always rave about, and after I looked and looked, used Search and scrolled around I did not find LBRY. Guess it got removed everywhere! However, I can see that it is great for Power Users!

https://fostips.com/remove-flatpak-apps-free-up-disk/

https://forum.manjaro.org/t/root-tip-ho ... app/104718

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flatpak uninstall io.lbry.lbry-app

This Worked! Read the first link, and put the instruction through Yakuake. Took immediately, without fuss. I reloaded as a precaution to reset the system to the new parameters and LBRY was gone. Wunderbar

Thanks so much to all of you. Not only do you solve problems, but I learn new things along the way. THANKS!

[BitterTruth]

Not only do you solve problems, but I learn new things along the way. THANKS!

We learn just as much 'helping'. I didn't know half of this stuff either! Glad you got it sorted and for letting us know.