Home / ubuntu / Questions / 1142409
Accepted
T.Todua
Asked: 2019-05-12 06:33:35 +0800 CST

How to completely remove "certbot" from ubuntu?

  • 772

I've tried

sudo apt-get remove python-certbot-apache
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove python-certbot-apache
sudo apt-get remove  python3-certbot-apache
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove python3-certbot-apache

but when I run command certbot it still is recognized. How can I completely remove it, thus, typing that command was like any unrecoginzed command.

letsencrypt

4 Answers

  1. Below steps worked for me when I needed the same solution.

    1. Remove Certbot

       sudo certbot delete

    2. Remove Certbot's Apache package

       sudo apt purge python-certbot-apache

    3. Disable the SSL config file created by certbot

       sudo a2dissite 000-default-le-ssl.conf

    4. Remove certbot files manually

       sudo rm -rf /etc/letsencrypt/
 sudo rm -rf /var/lib/letsencrypt/
 sudo rm -rf /var/log/letsencrypt/

    5. Make sure the repo is updated and autoremoved

       sudo apt update
 sudo apt upgrade
 sudo apt autoremove

    6. Cautious: Additionally you can also reinstall apache2 if needed for fresh config files

       sudo apt purge apache2
 sudo service apache2 restart

    If mods-available folder also completely get purged during apache2 removal process then PHP will not be executed and code will be displayed on the browser. In my case, PHP version is 7.2 and executed the below. Adjust the below commands based on your PHP version.

        sudo apt purge libapache2-mod-php7.2
    sudo apt install libapache2-mod-php7.2
    sudo a2enmod php7.2
    sudo apachectl configtest
    sudo service apache2 restart

    Hope this helps someone.

    • 19

  2. If you have installed certbot using snap, this will work perfectly:

    sudo snap remove certbot
    • 10
  3. Best Answer

    Do a search with:

    sudo dpkg -l *certbot*

    -l *certbot* does a regex search, so packages with names that include "certbot" will be returned in the search results.

    dpkg-query -l *certbot*

    will also do the same. From man dpkg:

    dpkg-query actions
       See dpkg-query(1) for more information about the following actions.

       -l, --list package-name-pattern...
           List packages matching given pattern.

    Also see info dpkg!

    • 7

  4. I tried to use sudo apt install certbot on my Ubuntu. And it turns out the version 0.40.0 is far behind the current version 1.16.

    So I followed 5th step of the official instructions here.

    Run sudo apt-get remove certbot and sudo apt autoremove. It works for me.

    • 2