sudo apt-get remove adobereader-enu --purge
Eu verifiquei todas as perguntas semelhantes. Nenhum deles oferece uma solução funcional no meu caso. Isso não é uma duplicata. Aqui estão os detalhes da minha situação exclusiva :
$ acroread
Isso faz com que o Adobe Acrobat Reader 9 seja aberto e executado.
$ lsb_release -a
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise
Estou executando o Kubuntu
$ which acroread
/usr/bin/acroread
$ ls -la /usr/bin/acroread
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 May 15 2013 /usr/bin/acroread -> /opt/Adobe/Reader9/bin/acroread
/opt/Adobe/Reader9$ find . -iname UNINSTALL
/opt/Adobe/Reader9$
$ sudo apt-get remove acroread
Package acroread is not installed, so not removed
$ dpkg -s acroread
Package: acroread
Status: deinstall ok config-files
Priority: extra
Section: partner/text
Installed-Size: 65
Maintainer: Brian Thomason <[email protected]>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 9.5.5-1precise1
Config-Version: 9.5.5-1precise1
Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, acroread-bin, nspluginwrapper
Description: Adobe Reader
Adobe Reader allows you to view navigate and print PDF files. This version
adds advanced forms support (save), better integration with Adobe Acrobat
workflows, customizable toolbars and better overall performance.
.
This package provides the English version of Adobe Reader 9.
sudo dpkg --purge acroread
dpkg: warning: there's no installed package matching acroread
sudo dpkg -r acroread
dpkg: warning: there's no installed package matching acroread
$ sudo locate adobereader
(no results returned)
$ sudo locate acroread
/etc/bash_completion.d/acroread.sh
/home/me/.kde/share/icons/NITRUX-KDE/apps/scalable/acroread.svg
/var_cache_apt_archives/acroread_9.2-1jaunty1_amd64.deb
/opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread
/opt/Adobe/Reader9/Resource/Shell/acroread.1.gz
/opt/Adobe/Reader9/Resource/Shell/acroread_tab
/opt/Adobe/Reader9/bin/acroread
/usr/bin/acroread
/usr/share/applications/acroread.desktop
/usr/share/doc/acroread-bin
/usr/share/doc/acroread-bin/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/acroread-bin/copyright
/usr/share/icons/mono/scalable/apps/acroread.svgz
/usr/share/icons/oxygen/128x128/apps/acroread.png
/usr/share/icons/oxygen/16x16/apps/acroread.png
/usr/share/icons/oxygen/22x22/apps/acroread.png
/usr/share/icons/oxygen/32x32/apps/acroread.png
/usr/share/icons/oxygen/48x48/apps/acroread.png
/usr/share/icons/oxygen/64x64/apps/acroread.png
/usr/share/lintian/overrides/acroread-bin
/usr/share/man/man1/acroread.1.gz
/usr/share/scribus/icons/acroread16.png
/usr/share/scribus/icons/acroread22.png
/usr/share/scribus/icons/acroread32.png
/var/cache/apt/archives/acroread-bin_9.5.5-1precise1_i386.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/acroread_9.5.5-1precise1_amd64.deb
/var/lib/dpkg/info/acroread-bin.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/acroread-bin.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/acroread.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/acroread.postrm
$ sudo apt-get remove --purge acroread*
depois de executar este último comando, o acroread ainda está instalado e digitar acroread em qualquer prompt ainda faz com que ele seja aberto e executado.