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Uninstalling Zend Server on DEB

The following procedures describes how to uninstall Zend Server on a DEB operating system.

Uninstalling and deleting  Zend Server can be performed by using the following programs:

Important!

The following resources are not removed during the uninstallation procedures describes below:
1. Files under Zend Directory (/usr/local/zend): DB files (located at var/db) and Log files (located at var/logs).
2. User 'zend' (not a regular user, login disabled).
3. Web server (Apache, nginx).

Note:

To perform this action you must have root privileges.

Manually Uninstalling Zend Server using 'aptitude'

The following instructions describe how to delete or uninstall using 'aptitude'.

Note:

'aptitude' is not installed by default on the Ubuntu operating system version 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) onwards. You can either choose to install 'aptitude' on your Ubuntu or uninstall using 'apt-get'.

 

 

Instructions on how to complete a procedure

To uninstall Zend Server (leaving the configuration files in place) run:

 # aptitude remove '~izend'

To delete Zend Server from the system with no traces left run:

# aptitude purge '~nzend'

 

Manually Uninstalling Zend Server using 'apt-get'

The following instructions describe how to delete or uninstall using 'apt-get'.

 

 

Instructions on how to complete a procedure

To uninstall Zend Server (leaving the configuration files in place) run:

 # apt-get remove `dpkg -l | grep zend | grep ^ii | awk '{print $2}'`

To delete Zend Server from the system with no traces left run:

# apt-get purge `dpkg -l | grep zend | awk '{print $2}'`

 

Automatically Uninstalling Zend Server

The following instructions describe how to delete or uninstall Zend Server using an automated script that includes all remove commands.

 

 

Instructions on how to complete a procedure

To automatically uninstall Zend Server run:

/usr/local/zend/bin/uninstall.sh

Tip:

Add --automatic to this command to run the script uninterrupted and without prompting verification messages.

 

Read Also

  Installing Zend Server    
  Upgrading Zend Server