I noticed after rebooting that in my applications there was “Youtube” I thought it was maybe youtube-dl but it’s the icon and when you right click it, the “New Window” “explore” and “Subscription” options show up. I looked in the App Center under “Snap Packages” and “debian Packages” for the default Youtube app but none was there. So how/who/why did Youtube icon/link get installed and how do I get rid of it?
dpkg -l | grep youtube
will tell you if it is a current package.
You say the App centre can not find it , either as a package or a snap.
I wonder if it is a browser extension?
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I tried the " dpkg -l | grep youtube" but it didn’t say anything. I’m using chrome as my main browser and there seems to be no extention for youtube. It only showed up after installing the newer Ubuntu. Weird.
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Yes puzzling.
I dont suppose it is an Appimage or a Flatpak
And, have a look in /usr/local/ is there anything there ?
The only other ways to get software into a Linux are to download a tarfile or pull a github repository. They would leave traces in the filesystem
Does which youtube find anything?
if it does, use file to find out what it is
Is there a .desktop file?
Is that it?
If so, its name is utube not youtube
You might be able to find utube in your App Centre
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I checked for snapstore and appImage yet none is installed that says “Youtube”. I wish my computer would let me take screenshots (for some reason kazam and flameshot dont work since the update) but thats another issue. I wonder if its malware? That’s the only thing I can think of.
I added some more ideas to my last reply… check it again.
I think its name is utube, not youtube
I think there is a way to pin a website as so it would appear like an application. Maybe that’s what happened?
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Maybe that is it?
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If its an icon on your desktop ?
Right click and select uninstall ?
If it only appears in chrome or firefox
Again right click and delete, its a browser shortcut.
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I’ve seen some distros - when you install Google Chrome - create application icons in your desktop menuing system for chrome extensions (e.g. Google Docs, Calendar etc, and youtube).
I think that’s where it comes from… There’s no dedicated “app” for youtube on Linux that I’m aware of. Similar to what you see in the “nine dots” menu when using a browser and logged into e.g. Gmail :
This doesn’t seem to happen with Brave Browser on Pop!_OS - but I have seen it on Ubuntu after installing Google Chrome.
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That was it. Chrome had (or I had accidentally) added the icon thing to my apps. I was able to remove it. Still not sure why it’s on there since I don’t remember installing it.
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