Apache2 – Permanently Remove Apache2

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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.

Best 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).

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sudo apache2ctl start

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I installed aptitude and got these proposed solutions:

$ sudo aptitude install makerware
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  avrdude{a} conveyor{a} conveyor-common{a} conveyor-ui{a} libarmadillo4{a} 
  libarpack2{a} libboost-program-options1.54.0{a} libcoin80{a} libdap11{a} 
  libdapclient3{a} libdigitizer{a} libepsilon1{a} libfreexl1{a} libftdi1{a} 
  libgdal1h{a} libgeos-3.4.2{a} libgeos-c1{a} libgraphicsmagick3{a} 
  libhdf4-0-alt{a} libhdf5-7{a} libjsoncpp0{a} libkml0{a} libmbqtutils{a} 
  libmysqlclient18{a} libnetcdfc7{a} libogdi3.2{a} libopenmesh-3.2{a} 
  libopenscenegraph99{a} libopenthreads14{a} libpq5{a} libproj0{a} 
  libqt5multimedia5{ab} libqt5multimediawidgets5{a} libspatialite5{a} 
  libthing{a} libtinything{a} libtoolpathviz{a} liburiparser1{a} 
  libxerces-c3.1{a} libxine2{a} libxine2-bin{a} libxine2-doc{a} 
  libxine2-ffmpeg{a} libxine2-misc-plugins{a} libxine2-plugins{a} 
  makerbot-driver{a} makerware mb-libjsonrpc{a} mb-libopencv2.4{a} 
  mb-libstdc++6{a} mb-libvtk5.10{a} mb-pyserial{a} miracle-grue{a} 
  mysql-common{a} proj-bin{a} proj-data{a} 
0 packages upgraded, 56 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 206 MB/206 MB of archives. After unpacking 340 MB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libqt5multimedia5 : Depends: qtbase-abi-5-2-1 which is a virtual package.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

     Keep the following packages at their current version:
1)     libqt5multimedia5 [Not Installed]                  
2)     libqt5multimediawidgets5 [Not Installed]           
3)     makerware [Not Installed]                          



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The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

      Remove the following packages:                                            
1)      libqt5help5                                                             
2)      libqt5xmlpatterns5                                                      
3)      musescore                                                               
4)      qml-module-qtquick-localstorage                                         
5)      qml-module-qtquick-window2                                              
6)      qml-module-qtquick2                                                     
7)      qml-module-qtwebkit                                                     

      Install the following packages:                                           
8)      libqt5positioning5 [5.2.1-1ubuntu2 (now, trusty)]                       
9)      libqt5sensors5 [5.2.1+dfsg-2ubuntu2 (now, trusty)]                      

      Downgrade the following packages:                                         
10)     libqt5clucene5 [5.3.0-5~trusty1 (now, trusty) -> 5.2.1-8build1 (trusty)]
11)     libqt5core5a [5.3.0+dfsg-2ubuntu9~trusty1 (now, trusty) -> 5.2.1+dfsg-1u
12)     libqt5dbus5 [5.3.0+dfsg-2ubuntu9~trusty1 (now, trusty) -> 5.2.1+dfsg-1ub
13)     libqt5gui5 [5.3.0+dfsg-2ubuntu9~trusty1 (now, trusty) -> 5.2.1+dfsg-1ubu
14)     libqt5network5 [5.3.0+dfsg-2ubuntu9~trusty1 (now, trusty) -> 5.2.1+dfsg-
15)     libqt5opengl5 [5.3.0+dfsg-2ubuntu9~trusty1 (now, trusty) -> 5.2.1+dfsg-1
16)     libqt5printsupport5 [5.3.0+dfsg-2ubuntu9~trusty1 (now, trusty) -> 5.2.1+
17)     libqt5qml5 [5.3.0-3ubuntu13~trusty1 (now, trusty) -> 5.2.1-3ubuntu15.1 (
18)     libqt5quick5 [5.3.0-3ubuntu13~trusty1 (now, trusty) -> 5.2.1-3ubuntu15.1
19)     libqt5sql5 [5.3.0+dfsg-2ubuntu9~trusty1 (now, trusty) -> 5.2.1+dfsg-1ubu
20)     libqt5sql5-sqlite [5.3.0+dfsg-2ubuntu9~trusty1 (now, trusty) -> 5.2.1+df
21)     libqt5svg5 [5.3.0-2~trusty1 (now, trusty) -> 5.2.1-1 (trusty)]          
22)     libqt5test5 [5.3.0+dfsg-2ubuntu9~trusty1 (now, trusty) -> 5.2.1+dfsg-1ub
23)     libqt5webkit5 [5.3.0+dfsg-1ubuntu2~trusty1 (now, trusty) -> 5.1.1-1ubunt
24)     libqt5webkit5-qmlwebkitplugin [5.3.0+dfsg-1ubuntu2~trusty1 (now, trusty)
25)     libqt5widgets5 [5.3.0+dfsg-2ubuntu9~trusty1 (now, trusty) -> 5.2.1+dfsg-
26)     libqt5xml5 [5.3.0+dfsg-2ubuntu9~trusty1 (now, trusty) -> 5.2.1+dfsg-1ubu
27)     qtdeclarative5-localstorage-plugin [5.3.0-3ubuntu13~trusty1 (now, trusty
28)     qtdeclarative5-qtquick2-plugin [5.3.0-3ubuntu13~trusty1 (now, trusty) ->
29)     qtdeclarative5-window-plugin [5.3.0-3ubuntu13~trusty1 (now, trusty) -> 5



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It seems that when I added the repository for MuseScore and upgraded MuseScore to 2.0, it also updated qt to 5.3 which seems to be incompatible with Makerware.

For now, it looks like I have to downgrade MuseScore or not use Makerware.

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