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how to delete shiny from a linux server
  • Delete/Remove Software/Package, Link

    1. Search in list of packages with dpkg --list
    2. Find name of package and delete sudo apt-get --purge remove shiny-server
    • --purge removes config files, too
    • --autoremove: delete unused packages
    • in combination sudo apt-get --purge --autoremove remove shiny-server
    1. maybe also look for all files with the package name and delete them: find -name shiny-server
  • Find all files with string in name: find -name string

  • Find all files with string and delete them: ``find . -name "FILE-TO-FIND" -exec rm -rf {} ;` (folder, too), link

    • for shiny server: sudo find . -name shiny-server -exec rm -rf {} \;
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