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Xeoncross
Asked: 2010-09-23 13:23:35 +0800 CST

Removing Apache from Debian 5

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I had Debian 5 installed on my VPS but I found that it came with apache2 already up and running. I tried

apt-get remove apache2

but it said that apache2 wasn't running. I checked top and yep, there it was. So then I turned it off.

/etc/init.d/apache2 stop

which worked fine and shut the daemon down. However, I still can't remove it. I tried aptitude remove but it says that it isn't installed.

What is going on?

debian apache-2.2 vps

4 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Try apt-get remove apache2-utils.

    In Debian 5, Apache is split into multiple packages:

    1. apache2
    2. apache2-mpm-prefork (or apache2-mpm-worker or apache2-mpm-event)
    3. apache2.2-common
    4. apache2-utils

    There are interdependencies: (1) depends on (2), which depends on (3), which depends on (4). Therefore, removing (4) causes all of them to be removed. (The apache2 package doesn't contain much in itself; it just exists so that you can do apt-get install apache2 to conveniently install all of those packages.)

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  2. Most probably your VPS didn't came with Apache installed via apt-get. See if you can find the binaries in /usr/local, which is a telltale sign of it being compiled from source.

    I can't find a good reason for doing this... and I don't like the sound of it...

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  3. If you're unable to remove the package via apt or synaptic, it's likely that apache was (for some unforesaken reason) installed from a binary tarball or possibly from source. In this case, there's probably not much you can do aside from manually deleting the files associated with apache.

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  4. The best way to remove everything apache related is to run

    apt-get remove apache2*
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