How to uninstall/remove Certbot Let's Encrypt from Debian 8

Question

I just followed the instuctions found on : https://certbot.eff.org/#debianjessie-apache to install let's encrypt certificate on my linux vps.

but unfortunately, installation did not went as I expected because :

• A. I already had an instance of apache2 installed - which conflicted with apache instance certbot installer installs.
• B. I have a dynamic dns I want to have as my domain name and add ssl for, but let's encrypt system seems to have problem with free dns providers.

so I finally decided to removed certbot and instead try to install local ssl certificate I sign my self personally. I can't find direct un-installation guide for certbot. can you please help ?

Thank You

Beneficiary

Answer 1

Alright, I think I found out how to do it :

first I removed certbot using these commands :

sudo apt-get purge certbotapt
sudo apt-get purge python-certbot-apache -t jessie-backports
sudo apt-get purge apache2

then I manually removed files/folders in following :

• /myuser/certbot-auto
• /myuser/.local/share/letsencrypt/
• /etc/letsencrypt/
• /var/lib/letsencrypt/
• /var/log/letsencrypt/

then I installed a new fresh instance of apache2 :

sudo apt-get install apache2
sudo service apache2 restart

Now things are back to where I was, and I can work on installing personal/local ssl for my project.

Hope this help you too ;)

Beneficiary

you should mention that this also will remove all of your certificates ... in my case I just wanted to get rid of certbot and instead use the new certbot-auto – Bracelet

@Rami Ibrahim thanks for your great post that safe my day – Judd

Also remove the /etc/cron.d/certbot file to prevent failed runs. – Realist

Answer 2

If you would like to remove its ppa as well then:

sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:certbot/certbot

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