How come I can not uninstall mongoDB?

[3ax3yth]

I installed mongoDB following the instructions step by step at Ubuntu
and Debian packages page here:

http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Ubuntu+and+Debian+packages

Then my file system root quickly ran out of space and I thought I
would uninstall mongo by

1. Running `sudo apt-get purge mongodb mongodb-server mongodb-clients
mongodb-dev`
2. Removing `deb http://downloads-distro.mongodb.org/repo/ubuntu-upstart
dist 10gen` in my /etc/apt/sources.list file

To see if mongo was really gone I ran `mongo` and I got the mongo
shell:

MongoDB shell version: 2.0.2
connecting to: test
>

When I run `locate mongo` I get the following list

/etc/mongodb.conf
/etc/init/mongodb.conf
/etc/init.d/mongodb
/usr/bin/mongo
/usr/bin/mongod
/usr/bin/mongodump
/usr/bin/mongoexport
/usr/bin/mongofiles
/usr/bin/mongoimport
/usr/bin/mongorestore
/usr/bin/mongos
/usr/bin/mongostat
/usr/bin/mongotop
/usr/lib/openoffice/basis3.2/share/fingerprint/mongolian_cyrillic.lm
/usr/share/doc/mongodb-10gen
/usr/share/doc/mongodb-10gen/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/mongodb-10gen/copyright
/usr/share/lintian/overrides/mongodb-10gen
/usr/share/man/man1/mongo.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mongod.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mongodump.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mongoexport.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mongofiles.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mongoimport.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mongorestore.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mongos.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mongosniff.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mongostat.1.gz
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/lang/mongolian-utf-8.inc.php
/usr/share/vim/vim72/keymap/mongolian_utf-8.vim
/var/lib/mongodb
/var/lib/dpkg/info/mongodb-10gen.conffiles
/var/lib/dpkg/info/mongodb-10gen.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/mongodb-10gen.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/mongodb-10gen.postinst
/var/lib/dpkg/info/mongodb-10gen.postrm
/var/lib/dpkg/info/mongodb-10gen.preinst
/var/lib/dpkg/info/mongodb-10gen.prerm
/var/lib/mongodb/journal
/var/lib/mongodb/mongod.lock
/var/lib/mongodb/journal/j._0
/var/lib/mongodb/journal/prealloc.1
/var/lib/mongodb/journal/prealloc.2
/var/lib/update-rc.d/mongodb
/var/log/mongodb
/var/log/mongodb/mongodb.log



So how can I fully uninstall mongoDB?

[Sam Millman]

Does this do anything:

sudo apt-get remove mongodb-10gen

?

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[Tyler Brock]

apt-get --purge remove mongodb-10gen

As Sam pointed out, you missed a crucial part of that command :-)

-Tyler

On Dec 23, 7:12 am, Sam Millman <sam.mill...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does this do anything:
>
> sudo apt-get remove mongodb-10gen
>
> ?
>

> On 23 December 2011 12:05, 3ax3yth <maxmyt...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > I installed mongoDB following the instructions step by step at Ubuntu
> > and Debian packages page here:
>
> >http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Ubuntu+and+Debian+packages
>
> > Then my file system root quickly ran out of space and I thought I
> > would uninstall mongo by
>
> > 1. Running `sudo apt-get purge mongodb mongodb-server mongodb-clients
> > mongodb-dev`

> > 2. Removing `debhttp://downloads-distro.mongodb.org/repo/ubuntu-upstart

[3ax3yth]

Ok so I did `sudo apt-get --purge remove mongodb-10gen` and it worked
but I got this warning:

dpkg: warning: while removing mongodb-10gen, directory '/var/lib/
mongodb' not empty so not removed.

Not sure why it was not removed. Can I go ahead and remove that on my
own?

[Sam Millman]

Yep, it does that. Just remove it, sometimes files not related to the install end up in that directory but its normally just meta files that can be deleted.

[3ax3yth]

One other thing. When I do `locate mongo` I get the list below which
is similar to my original list. I thought using `apt-get purge` would
get rid of everything mongoDB on my system. Other than this list it
seems like mongodb is gone from my system because running `mongo` or
`mongod` results in:

The program 'mongod' is currently not installed. You can install it
by typing:
sudo apt-get install mongodb



// `locate mongo` bash output //

/etc/mongodb.conf
/etc/init/mongodb.conf
/etc/init.d/mongodb
/usr/bin/mongo
/usr/bin/mongod
/usr/bin/mongodump
/usr/bin/mongoexport
/usr/bin/mongofiles
/usr/bin/mongoimport
/usr/bin/mongorestore
/usr/bin/mongos
/usr/bin/mongostat
/usr/bin/mongotop
/usr/lib/openoffice/basis3.2/share/fingerprint/mongolian_cyrillic.lm
/usr/share/doc/mongodb-10gen

[Tyler Brock]

The locate database isn't updated on the fly... Run sudo updatedb.

Try not to use locate in the future, find is a much better way to go
about locating things.

-Tyler