How to Uninstall or Remove Software Packages From Ubuntu

 

In this post, We will remove or uninstalled packages using command line user-interface.

 

In my case, I am going to uninstall the apache2 package from ubuntu machine.

 

Step 1: Get the Packages

 

You need to check 1st packages is installed or not by using the given command, In my case i am searching apache2 packages in ubuntu linux.

 

sudo dpkg --get-selections | grep apache2*

 

after getting the apache2 packages list, We can uninstall or remove the packages from ubuntu machine.

 

Step 2: Remove or Uninstall the Packages

 

Now we can remove the installed apache2 package from from ubuntu machine by execute the following command. 

 

sudo apt-get remove package_name -y 

 

If you want to purge all the related files belongs to apache so then you need to use the –purge command to do that.

 

sudo apt-get --purge remove <package_name> -y