root@lou:/home/kash# apt-get remove xchat
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  xchat xchat-common
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking, 2236kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? 
(Reading database ... 72758 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing xchat ...
Removing xchat-common ...
root@lou:/home/kash# esear
root@lou:/home/kash# ps aux|grep xchat
lauren   20010  4.7  2.9  40052 13416 ?        Sl   18:45   0:02 xchat
lauren   20039  0.0  2.9  40148 13540 ?        S    18:46   0:00 xchat
root     20042  0.0  0.1   1632   492 pts/2    R+   18:46   0:00 grep xchat
root@lou:/home/kash# killall -9 xchat
root@lou:/home/kash# write lauren
write: lauren has messages disabled
root@lou:/home/kash#