I have a Chromium in my menu that I can't remove?

[sub_zero]

Hi friends,

I am trying to get rid of this:

I opened a terminal, and did ‘apt remove chromium’ followed by ‘apt autoremove’ and it uninstalled Chromium (or so I thought) , yet after logging out and logging in, the entry is still here in my menu.

I figured surely it’s probably just a broken shortcut now, like you’d find in Windows, but to my shock when I click it, it’s launching a … chromium ?!

So, I try right clicking it to find out what’s going on, and there’s not a lot of options:

I figure surely it must be App Details then, but, it instead appears to spawn a gnome-software window declaring it has no idea what I’m talking about:

So, I am mostly at my wits end here as a novice user

What is this Chromium, and why can’t I remove it?

And most importantly, why is there no DELETE option?

edit - man come on, this forum says I can’t attach more than 2 pictures? sheesh

[CodedOre]

Well, if the desktop entry still can launch it, you probably have Chromium still installed.

Let’s start with the simplest way to check. In GNOME Software, go to the Installed tab and see if you can find an entry for Chromium.
If you van uninstall it from there, that should solve it then.

[sub_zero]

I wish! Unfortunately, it’s not there either

It is alphebetical, and I scrolled down through the extended list just to be certain

[CodedOre]

That’s a bit unfortunate, but not too unexpected when it can’t find the details.

Now, there are two options.

First, it could be that there is another package providing Chromium.

Now, I’m not too familiar with apt, but the following should in theory work:
First, use locate -i "*chromium*.desktop" to locate the path to the desktop file. Ideally it should be in /usr/share/applications. If not, its most likely the second case.

If you find the desktop file in /usr/share/applications, run dpkg -S FILEPATH with FILEPATH being the path to the desktop file. This should show you which package has installed the desktop file. Removing that package should then in theory remove Chromium and the desktop file.

However, the second option is that Chromium was also installed by another method.

In any case, you might want to look into what help resources or forums your distribution offers, they could probably assist better with such an issue.