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Permanently removing apache2

rated 0 times [ 203] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 955901 / 2 Years ago, thu, september 29, 2022, 5:18:51

It seems a simple apt-get remove apache2 does not completely remove apache2 as I can still see it on one of the processes when running top. How does one remove apache2 completely on his ubuntu server?

It's not removed indeed:

~# which apache2

/usr/sbin/apache2

~# whereis apache2

apache2: /usr/sbin/apache2 /etc/apache2 /usr/lib/apache2 /usr/share/apache2 /usr/share/man/man8/apache2.8.gz

But when I do apt-get remove apache2 again:

# apt-get remove apache2

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

Package apache2 is not installed, so not removed

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

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answered 2 Years ago assionortly · Accepted Answer

apache2 is a metapackage that just selects other packages. If you installed apache by installing that package, you just need to run this to clean up the automatically selected packages:

sudo apt autoremove

If that doesn't work, you might have installed one of the dependents manually. You can target all the apache2- packages from space and nuke the lot:

sudo apt remove apache2.*

For future reference, to find out which package a binary is from, you can run this:

dpkg -S `which apache2`

I'd expect that to come back with apache2.2-bin (at the time of writing).