Uninstall Android Studio completely in Ubuntu, Fedora and it’s derivatives !
As we all know, Android Studio 3 and above(at the time of writing) is now the official integrated development environment (IDE) for Google’s mobile Android operating system, built on JetBrains’ IntelliJ IDEA software and designed specifically for Android development, as we all know. It is a replacement for the Eclipse Android Development Tools (ADT) as primary IDE for native Android application development.
We need to fully uninstall the software, but as we know there is no single command available for this as the installer given by Google is a zip file and there is no .deb package. We need to manually install it and if not required again manually delete/remove or uninstall it. The steps for installing on Ubuntu and Fedora as well it’s derivatives is given here. I am writing this tutorial on lubuntu 17.10, lxde desktop, but the procedure/method is the same for all it’s derivatives.
The default locations are …./android-studio/bin/idea.properties for older versions basically.
Delete the android-studio folder or anything which mentions Android.
Sometimes the icon launcher can be as seen below:-
If your launcher file is in any of the first two directories, you will require root permissions in order to delete it.
Note:- We need to activate the hidden folders in order to see it inside the file manager GUI. Hit Ctrl + H
How to Uninstall Android Studio 2.2 on Ubuntu 16.04
The android-studio folder is normally in /usr/local/ for your user profile, or /opt/ for shared users.
The sdk folder is normally at
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How do I uninstall android studio in Ubuntu 20.04
I download Android Studio — Arctic Fox | 2020.3.1 from their official website in my ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
My installation Process:
I downloaded the zip file and extracted it. I cd into the /bin/ directory and executed the studio.sh file using ./studio.sh command. The installation went through but now I’m having a lot of problems.
I want to completely uninstall it without altering anything but don’t know how. I would be glad if anyone could help me.
5 Answers 5
studio.sh is not an installer. It is the starter.
Uninstall is to delete the directory where you extract the package, no other steps.
BTW, I run Android Studio Arctic Fox on my Linux Mint very well, what are your problems? Mint suppose to be same as Ubuntu.
First, try to delete all the hidden files of Android from the home directory if any exist. Hidden files are in .cache/Google/ and .config/Google of your home directory.
Then, type the following commands in Terminal.
As you installed with zip file go into directory where you installed it then do rm file created there
note if you have added it to you path also you need to remove it by rm -rf android-studio/bin/
When you download the .zip file and extract it, the /android-studio/ folder then also has file Install-Linux-tar.txt , which says:
By default, Android Studio stores all your settings in the
/.config/Google/AndroidStudio2022.1 directory and uses
/.local/share/Google/AndroidStudio2022.1 as a data cache.
That means you have to visit these directories and delete their content.
Don’t forget to delete the /android-studio/ folder too. You might have downloaded it either to /usr/local/ for your user profile or /opt/ for shared users. If so, to delete the /android-studio/ folder, go to Terminal and type:
How to uninstall android studio from Ubuntu 16.04 or 18.04?
Removing or uninstalling the android studio from Ubuntu is easy. Using the following instructions we can uninstall the android studio from Ubuntu:
Steps:
- Delete the android-studio folder
- Delete the sdk folder if it is in not inside the android-studio directory
- Delete
Here is another good source for uninstalling android studio from ubuntu.
Once we are done uninstalling android studio from ubuntu if we want to install it again here is a good source.