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Asked: 2014-07-06 17:28:00 +0800 CST

iptables-persistent not uninstalling

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I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 and I simply want to uninstall iptables-persistent to test something.

As suggested here (http://www.installion.co.uk/ubuntu/saucy/universe/i/iptables-persistent/uninstall.html) I tried:

sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove iptables-persistent

... but it's still there. I tried again and got the message:

Package 'iptables-persistent' is not installed, so not removed

But it isn't removed. I rebooted and still am able to run 

/etc/init.d/iptables-persistent save

and /etc/init.d/iptables-persistent is still there. What am I missing? Shouldn't that file be gone after removing it as I did?

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  1. Best Answer

    Files in /etc are config files and are kept around when you remove a package in case you reinstall it in the future. If you want to get rid of them, you have to purge the package:

    sudo apt-get remove --purge iptables-persistent
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