how to delete shiny from a linux server

delete_shiny.md

• 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
  3. 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 {} \;