Re: [Nolug] uninstalling apache2

On 07/01/2010 10:17 PM, general.reikan@gmail.com wrote:
> If I manually remove the files and directories and then attempt to
> reinstall apache2 with apt-get later will it reinstall the default
> directories and files even though I did not remove them via the package
> manager?

Sure. Apt won't know that the package was ever installed.

> My concern is that having manually removed them the package
> manager will assume that these directories still exist and then forgo
> installing them along with the default config files leaving me with none.

There's one way to find out! :)

> At this point removing these files isn't a huge concern, it just bugs me
> not finding a way to do a completely clean uninstall.
>

Did you look in /etc/apache2 to see what's still there?

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