Re: PHP 4 uninstall

[Paul Dwerryhouse <paul@dwerryhouse.com.au>]

On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 10:44:34PM +0200, JB MORLA wrote:
>    I have mistakenly installed php4 when I wanted php5.
>    Which apt-get commands should I use to completely remove PHP 4?

This ought to do it:

apt-get --purge remove `dpkg --get-selections | grep php4 | awk '{print $1}'`

You might prefer to see what you're removing first, so you could just
do:

dpkg --get-selections | grep php4

and then apt-get --purge remove them individually ...

Cheers,

Paul

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