Today I came across with a bit of a problem while trying to remove Redis 2.6 from one of my servers. The problem was, when I was installing at the first time I used make install (Source build) instead of apt-get install (from repository). Since the make file didn’t had a un-install option, I had to remove it manually. In this post I will guide you through both uninstallation methods, You can chose the suitable method depending on how you installed it.
If you use apt-get
You can simply type below command in your terminal. This will remove the redis-server package and any other dependant packages which are no longer needed (Because of --auto-remove). And also it will delete your local/config files for redis-server (Because of purge).
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sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove redis-server |
If you used makefile
This is where it gets bit tricky. Because you will have to manually remove installed files. Here is how to do it;
1. Stop Redis server if it’s already running. Remember if you have more than one instance, you have to stop all of them. In my case I only have redis_6379 running at the moment.
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sudo service redis_6379 stop |
2. Now delete everything related to Redis server from /usr/local/bin/
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sudo rm /usr/local/bin/redis-* |
3. Now delete Redis Configuration files directory and it’s content.
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sudo rm -r /etc/redis/ |
4. Delete existing Redis log files.
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sudo rm /var/log/redis_* |
5. Delete existing Redis data directory and it’s content.
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sudo rm -r /var/lib/redis/ |
6. Delete existing Redis server init scripts
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sudo rm /etc/init.d/redis_* |
7. Remove existing Redis PID files (Only if exists)
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sudo rm /var/run/redis_* |
8. Restart your Ubuntu server.
9. Now Redis is completely removed from your Server.
Because of any reason if you need to Re-install Redis server on your Server, refer to my article on How to install Redis server in Ubuntu
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