Remove Amazon icon on Ubuntu

To successfully remove Amazon icon appearing on Ubuntu 17, open the Terminal and type the following:

sudo apt-get remove ubuntu-web-launchers

Type the root password and Amazon icon will disappear.

chirale

Alan says:

December 5, 2018 at 22:01

Hi,

What else is removed, or otherwise impacted , by running this command?

Thanks,

Alan.

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chirale says:

March 30, 2019 at 12:24

In my experience it doesn’t affect anything relevant on a fresh installation. The complete list of files is here, and only Amazon is listed: https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/all/ubuntu-web-launchers/filelist

Thank you for reading Alan!

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- Alan says:
  
  March 31, 2019 at 08:57
  
  Thanks Chirale – Good to know.
  
  Reply

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