FLATPAK-UNINSTALL(1)

💅 FLATPAK UNINSTALL 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the flatpak uninstall manual page, aka the part of the flatpak fam that helps you yeet apps and runtimes you no longer vibe with 🗑️✨ (the manual name is flatpak-uninstall, if you're being formal about it, and this whole thing lives in the flatpak docs) 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

flatpak-uninstall — uninstall an application or runtime. bye bye 👋💖

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

flatpak uninstall [OPTION...] [REF...]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So basically: this uninstalls an application or runtime. REF is a reference to the application or runtime you wanna uninstall 💀

Every REF argument is a full or partial identifier in the flatpak ref format, and that format looks exactly like this:

(app|runtime)/ID/ARCH/BRANCH

okay so here's the tea ☕ — all elements except ID are optional, and you can leave them out, slashes included (yes, even the slashes, we're that chill). So most of the time you literally only need to specify ID and you're done 💅

Anything you leave out gets matched against what's actually installed, and if there are multiple matches, you'll be prompted to choose between them. You'll also get prompted if REF doesn't match any installed ref exactly but is similar — like, gedit is similar to org.gnome.gedit 🥺 — but heads up, this fuzzy matching behavior is disabled if REF contains any slashes or periods. no cap.

By default this looks for both installed apps and runtimes with the given REF, but you can limit that by using the --app or --runtime option, or by supplying the initial element in the REF 🎀

Normally, this command removes the ref for this application/runtime from the local OSTree repository and purges any objects that are no longer needed, to free up disk space 🧹✨. If the same application is later reinstalled, the objects will be pulled from the remote repository again. The --keep-ref option can be used to prevent this.

When --delete-data is specified while removing an app, its data directory in ~/.var/app and any permissions it might have are removed 🫣. When --delete-data is used without a REF, all 'unowned' app data is removed. gone. periodt.

Unless overridden with the --system, --user, or --installation options, this command searches both the system-wide installation and the per-user one for REF — and errors out if it exists in more than one 😭 the drama.

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

The following options are understood:

• -h, --help — show help options and exit. iconic behavior honestly 💖
• --keep-ref — keep the ref for the application and the objects belonging to it in the local repository. it stays, bestie 🥰
• -u, --user — uninstalls from a per-user installation.
• --system — uninstalls from the default system-wide installation.
• --installation=NAME — uninstalls from a system-wide installation specified by NAME among those defined in /etc/flatpak/installations.d/. Using --installation=default is equivalent to using --system ✨
• --arch=ARCH — the architecture to uninstall, instead of the architecture of the host system. See flatpak --supported-arches for architectures supported by the host 🔍
• --all — remove all refs on the system. all of them. every last one 💀
• --unused — remove unused refs on the system. spring cleaning energy 🧼🌸
• -y, --assumeyes — automatically answer yes to all questions. this is useful for automation 🤖 slay
• --noninteractive — produce minimal output and avoid most questions. this is suitable for use in non-interactive situations, e.g. in a build script 🛠️
• --app — only look for an app with the given name.
• --runtime — only look for a runtime with the given name.
• --no-related — don't uninstall related extensions, such as the locale data 🙈
• --force-remove — remove files even if they're in use by a running application. > ⚠️ yeah this one is the "no thoughts head empty" option, it removes files even while a running app is using them — proceed with awareness, bestie 😭
• --delete-data — remove app data in ~/.var/app and in the permission store 🗑️💜
• -v, --verbose — print debug information during command processing.
• --ostree-verbose — print OSTree debug information during command processing.

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

$ flatpak --user uninstall org.gnome.gedit

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and that's the whole page, babe 💖 this one comes from the flatpak manual, page FLATPAK UNINSTALL(1) — mwah, go forth and uninstall responsibly 👑✨🎀