Eu fiz um teste baixando um programa chamado Vocal, é um programa para gerenciamento de podcasts, dai eu o desinstalei só que quando eu dou locate vocal ele ainda mostra alguns arquivos, veja:
locate vocal
/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/nathandyer_ubuntu_vocal-daily.gpg
/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/nathandyer_ubuntu_vocal-daily.gpg~
/home/luan/.cache/vocal
/home/luan/.config/vocal
/home/luan/.config/vocal/database
/home/luan/.config/vocal/database/vocal.db
/home/luan/.local/share/vocal
/home/luan/.local/share/vocal/Awesome Vocabulary: Learn English Vocabulary Words Podcast
/home/luan/.local/share/vocal/Daily Easy English Expression Podcast
/home/luan/.local/share/vocal/English as a Second Language (ESL) Podcast - Learn English Online
/home/luan/.local/share/vocal/Let's Master English! An English podcast for English learners
/home/luan/.local/share/vocal/Daily Easy English Expression Podcast/FLAG_ECUBED_DONE.jpg
/home/luan/.local/share/vocal/English as a Second Language (ESL) Podcast - Learn English Online/ESLPodcast.jpg
/home/luan/.local/share/vocal/Let's Master English! An English podcast for English learners/podclean.jpg
/var/crash/_usr_bin_vocal.1000.crash