You can uninstall or removes an installed circos package itself from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) through the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get remove circos
If you would like to remove circos and it's dependent packages which are no longer needed from Ubuntu,
$ sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove circos
If you use with purge options to circos package all the configuration and dependent packages will be removed.
$ sudo apt-get purge circos
If you use purge options along with auto remove, will be removed everything regarding the package, It's really useful when you want to reinstall again.
$ sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove circos