How to uninstall softwares from ubuntu - I am not able to find the software in Ubuntu Software centre

I had installed adobe reader on ubuntu but it was not working on my machine. So how do I unistall it.

Ubuntu Software Center was not showing the software to remove but It was there when I searched the Dash

So I opened the terminal (The icon with black screen and arrow) and installed Synaptic manager using the following command

sudo apt-get install synaptic


Once Synaptic manager was installed. I opened Synaptic manager searched for "adobe" marked the package for removal. Applied the change.


Viola! 200 mb free and adobe is removed.


Do comment if this helped you. :)
P.S> Programs are called packages in Ubuntu. I believe The tutorial can work for other linux systems also.