Carbonio CE Uninstallation

This procedure is intended for a complete uninstallation of Carbonio CE on an Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Server Edition and is suitable in case you want to reinstall Carbonio CE on a clean system. If you want to keep configuration files or logs, remember to copy them to a different directory before starting this procedure.

Console access is required for successful completion, so make sure to log in as root user–or as a user with administrative provileges–then execute the following commands in the given order.

At the end of the procedure, when all steps have been completed, no Carbonio CE trace will be present on the system.

Step #1: stop service

# su - zextras -c "zmcontrol stop"

Step #2: remove packages

Ubuntu

# apt purge "carbonio*"

RHEL

# dnf purge "carbonio*"

Note

After this step you may get a warning that while removing carbonio packages, some directories are not empty so they have not been removed.

Step #3: disable system service

# systemctl disable carbonio

Step #4: remove unused packages

Ubuntu

# apt autoremove

RHEL

# dnf autoremove

Step #5: remove crontab entry

# crontab -u zextras -r

Step #6: remove users

# userdel -rf zextras
# userdel postfix

Warning

The first command above may fail if some processes started by the zextras users are still running. You can safely terminate them by issuing this command:

killall -u zextras

and then repeat the above commands.

Warning

The next steps will remove all files that do not belong to the carbonio-* packages: customised configuration files, log files, and system files. If you think you will need them, for example for diagnostics or troubleshooting, copy them away before removing them.

Step #7: remove dangling configuration files

# rm -rf /opt/zextras/
# rm -rf /opt/carbonio/

Note

The second command is needed only in case some external service is installed.

Step #8: remove log and system files

# rm -rf /var/log/carbonio*
# rm /etc/logrotate.d/carbonio
# rm /etc/init.d/carbonio
# rm /run/systemd/generator.late/carbonio.service

Step #9: remove repository

# rm /var/lib/apt/lists/repo.zextras.io*