Uninstalling Secondlife

[snydley100]

I downloaded and installed the program Secondlife from their website ,(not using the package manager), it runs but there's problems with it,(it's meant to be run on a 32 bit O.S.). Then I found I can install Secondlife through the package manager and did that hoping it might straighten out these problems. What happened is now I have 2 links to the program in my Applications > Internet menu. I then removed Secondlife using the package manager hoping it would remove both versions, but it did not, the original one I downloaded is still installed, the second install is gone. How do I uninstall/get rid of this 1st one? I'd like to "clean up" this program from Ultimate Edition and reinstall it from the package manager. For that matter, how do you uninstall ANYTHING you download and install without using the package manager? Also, if I delete the directory that Seconlife is in, how do I remove the entry from my Applications > Internet menu?
I'm running Ultimate Edition 2.8 64bit.
Thanks,
Snyde

[snydley100]

You can use the Ubuntu software centre to remove programs. It's under Applications -> Ubuntu Software Centre.
Once it opens select Installed Software and select the once you want to remove and click the remove button.

It wasn't listed

or by simply opening a terminal and writing

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sudo dpkg -r secondlife

When I did that, this is the response I got:

dpkg: warning: ignoring request to remove secondlife, only the config
files of which are on the system. Use --purge to remove them too.

Then I entered:

sudo dpkg -r secondlife --purge
dpkg: warning: ignoring request to remove secondlife, only the config
files of which are on the system. Use --purge to remove them too.
dpkg: warning: ignoring request to remove --purge which isn't installed.

While writing this reply and looking at what I had written I realized maybe I didn't enter the "purge" line
correctly, so I went to the terminal again and entered:

sudo dpkg --purge secondlife

The response I got this time was:

(Reading database ... 549618 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing secondlife ...
Purging configuration files for secondlife ...


After that I deleted the directory where the secondlife files are, but it's Applications > Internet menu entry is still there. How do I get rid of that? Is there a way to "update" the menu entries somehow, or edit a config file and remove it? Maybe when I reboot it'll automagically disappear?!

Oh.....ps: Welcome to the forum

Thanks so much for the help, I'm a noob here and need ALL the help I can get.
Snyde

[snydley100]

You can use the Ubuntu software centre to remove programs. It's under Applications -> Ubuntu Software Centre.
Once it opens select Installed Software and select the once you want to remove and click the remove button.

After that I deleted the directory where the secondlife files are, but it's Applications > Internet menu entry is still there. How do I get rid of that? Is there a way to "update" the menu entries somehow, or edit a config file and remove it? Maybe when I reboot it'll automagically disappear?!

Nope, the menu entry is still there. Do you know how to delete a menu entry?

Thanks,
Snyde