There is no automatic way to uninstall. Next time I take a look at this script (in a few months), I will make an effort to document how one might manually uninstall.

For a start,

• remove /opt/texbin from /etc/environment
• rm -rf /opt/texbin
• apt-get remove texlive-local

not sure this is all but I hope this helps.

@gadmm thank you for that, but I've only managed to free 54MB following your instructions.. is there anything else you might suggest to completely uninstall this? thanks.

EDIT: Just realised you can sudo apt-get purge texlive and then sudo apt-get autoremove and also sudo apt-get clean and it helps a lot

@brecke what does the following command show to you?

du -sh /usr/local/texlive/

Thanks for the tip, I just removed it :)