Raspbian: completely remove Apache2?
Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2012 8:01 pm
[PROBLEM]
I installed apache2, but later figured that I'd rather want to run "lighttpd" on my Raspberry Pi.
So, I thought I'd get rid of apache by simply executing:
Well, it did uninstall the "apache2" package, it said that only 29.7 kB of disk space will be freed (which is definitely not the size of apache), and even worse: after a reboot, apache2 was happily starting itself automatically.
WTF?
[SOLUTION]
Since "apt-get" is not recursively removing packages (like aptitude could), one has to manually remove all apache2 packages:
Its output looks way more promising already:
I installed apache2, but later figured that I'd rather want to run "lighttpd" on my Raspberry Pi.
So, I thought I'd get rid of apache by simply executing:
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apt-get --purge remove apache2WTF?
[SOLUTION]
Since "apt-get" is not recursively removing packages (like aptitude could), one has to manually remove all apache2 packages:
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$ sudo apt-get --purge remove apache2.2-bin apache2 apache2.2-common apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utilsReading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
apache2* apache2-mpm-prefork* apache2-utils* apache2.2-bin* apache2.2-common* libapache2-mod-php5*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 6 to remove and 27 not upgraded.
After this operation, 11.8 MB disk space will be freed.
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