I found this out a couple of months ago: It *is* possible to uninstall programs in Linux, properly…if you use the Debian package management at least
So that means Debian and Ubuntu are good to go

Normally to remove a package you do this:

dpkg –remove package
or
dpkg –purge package
or
apt-get remove package

I usually use purge because it gets rid of the config files too
If you use apt-get remove though, you can then do this:

apt-get autoremove

And it will get rid of any libraries that are not in use by any packages. So if you install a package, and it ocmes with a bunch of libraries that nothing else uses, and you then uninstall that program…then autoremove gets rid of all those libraries too

Kind of like the old deborphan program…but built into apt

Neat huh?