How to remove Wireshark from my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS?

The following procedure should wipe wireshark from your system: First uninstall the wireshark package and all related configuration files:

sudo apt-get remove --purge wireshark

Then remove all dependencies that are no longer needed:

sudo apt-get autoremove

I wanted to simply make a comment, but seems like I have to make an answer. The method is shown here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOJWbAyjflk

sudo apt-get remove --autoremove wireshark wireshark-*

sudo rm -rf /etc/wireshark

check if everything is removed with whereis wireshark

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