How to completely remove an application as well as the configuration files?

[Ashley Benton]

On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Leonard Chatagnier
<lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net>wrote:

>
> --- Ashley Benton <chuaukantli at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I am trying to install apache2, php5, and my sql and
> > I messed up somewhere.
> > Apache was working but stopped when I tried to use
> > ssl. After hours of
> > trying to find where I messed up I wanted to remove
> > apache2 and reinstall
> > it. My problem is sudo apt-get remove apache2 then
> > sudo apt-get install
> > apache2 reinstall apache 2 like it was and doesn't
> > delete my configuration
> > files. I tried sudo apt-get purge apache 2 but
> > apache 2 is still here the
> > way I configured it. What could I do to completely
> > uninstall apache2 and
> > reinstall it with its original configuration files?
> > By doing ls -l I found some file like that :"books~"
> > I am guessing that some
> > files that were saved after a crash but I don't know
> > how to open them. They
> > should be in my home directory but are not (or at
> > least I can't see them)
> > How can I open them and delete them? I tried
> > lost+found but it wasn't there
> > neither.
> > Your help would be appreciated
> > Thank you
> > Meg
> sudo aptitude purge <pkgname> should do it. I don't
> know for sure about apt-get but I think it's something
> like sudo apt-get remove --purge <pkgname>.  Either
> should remove the conf files but if not for some
> unknown reason you could do locate apache and remove
> any related files manually using the rm command or
> better still use the mv command so you could retrieve
> them if needed.
> HTH,
>
> Leonard Chatagnier
> lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net


Thank you for your answer. I tried apt-get remove --purge and it told me
'Package apache2 is not installed', so not removed' Now I am completely lost
because ls -l /etc/apache2 list me:
 -apache2.conf, -conf.d, -envars, -httpd.conf, -mods-available,
-mods-enabled, -ports.conf, -sites-available, -sites-enabled, -ssl
Why can I see the files and directories with ls -l /etc/apache2 if it is not
installed? I thought that ls -l would show me only what is installed, am I
wrong?
Thanks
Meg



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