I had a failed installation of phpmyadmin.
Now, I’m trying to completely uninstall Apache, MySQL, PHP, and phpmyadmin in order to start over and try again.
I’m following some online guides to do so. However, whenever I run sudo apt-get autoremove to clean up the last few things, I get the phpmyadmin configuration wizard.
No matter what selections I choose in the wizard, the configuration inevitably fails.
My goal is not to configure phpmyadmin. My goal is to remove phpmyadmin, along with Apache, MySQL, and PHP. But it won’t let me. What do I do?
>Solution :
Instead of sudo apt autoremove, use sudo apt remove packagename or sudo apt purge packagename if you are trying to uninstall a particular package.
The difference between remove and purge in apt is that purge also removes configuration files and other files related to the package.
Examples:
sudo apt remove phpmyadmin
OR
sudo apt purge phpmyadmin