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Uninstalling Software#

Finally, we're going to remove nginx but we're not ready to run a web server yet - we haven't even designed out website!

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superman@develop:~$ sudo apt remove nginx
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  libfwupdplugin1
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  nginx
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 3,117 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
(Reading database ... 108507 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing nginx (1.20.2-1~focal) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.1-1) ...

And that's that. The apt remove command allows us to easily remove unwanted software from our system.