Dolphin not uninstalling on Linux

[geranim0]

Hi, somehow I managed to get 2 different versions of dolphin-emu installed on my computer. When I run dolphin-emu from root or not root, it launches a different version (same #version, but different parameters, example i lose my path and graphics parameters).

The version I launch with root works correctly while the other one runs at 3fps and maxes out 1 cpu at 100%. I build dolphin-emu from source (lastest version)

I tried to uninstall with apt-get purge dolphin-emu, but neither of the versions gets uninstalled.

Ubuntu 16.04, mate DE

[leolam]

First check which version is the version you want to keep, and which one is the one that you want to remove.

$ which dolphin-emu

and

# which dolphin-emu

should keep you different outputs. If you get the same paths, it's likely that there is in fact only one version, but since Dolphin stores its settings in your user directory (~/.config/dolphin-emu or ~/.dolphin-emu for old installs), Dolphin is not loading the same config when the user it's running as is different.

If that's the case, I would suggest resetting your Dolphin configuration by removing ~/.config/dolphin-emu completely (make sure to back up saves, your Wii NAND, etc.)

[geranim0]

Removing ~/.config/dolphin-emu fixed the issue, however I still don't know why it refused to uninstall.

Thanks!

[leolam]

It's simple. Any software that you install outside of the package manager is not tracked by it, so you cannot rely on the package manager to know if/where you installed Dolphin and what to remove.