completely remove phpmyadmin centos

Question

I removed phpmyadmin on my CentOS server by typing

yum erase phpmyadmin

Then I checked if it's still in the server by locate and it displayed this:

/etc/httpd/conf.d/phpmyadmin.conf
/usr/share/phpmyadmin
/usr/share/doc/phpmyadmin-2.11.11.3
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/Documentation.html
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/browse_foreigners.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/calendar.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/changelog.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/chk_rel.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/config.sample.inc.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/contrib
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/db_create.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/db_datadict.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/db_export.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/db_import.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/db_operations.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/db_printview.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/db_qbe.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/db_search.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/db_sql.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/db_structure.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/docs.css
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/error.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/export.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/favicon.ico
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/import.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/index.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/js
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/lang
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/libraries
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/license.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/main.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/navigation.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/pdf_pages.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/pdf_schema.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/phpinfo.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin.css.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/pmd
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/pmd_common.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/pmd_display_field.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/pmd_general.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/pmd_help.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/pmd_pdf.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/pmd_relation_new.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/pmd_relation_upd.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/pmd_save_pos.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/print.css
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/querywindow.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/readme.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/scripts
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/server_binlog.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/server_collations.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/server_databases.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/server_engines.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/server_export.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/server_import.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/server_privileges.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/server_processlist.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/server_sql.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/server_status.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/server_variables.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/show_config_errors.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/sql.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/tbl_addfield.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/tbl_alter.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/tbl_change.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/tbl_create.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/tbl_export.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/tbl_import.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/tbl_indexes.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/tbl_move_copy.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/tbl_operations.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/tbl_printview.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/tbl_relation.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/tbl_replace.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/tbl_row_action.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/tbl_select.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/tbl_sql.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/tbl_structure.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/themes
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/themes.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/transformation_overview.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/transformation_wrapper.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/translators.html
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/user_password.php
/usr/share/phpmyadmin/view_create.php
/var/lib/yum/yumdb/p/2c0c9042434bd52b58095c7d7d79477a9d5c45a3-phpmyadmin-2.11.11.3-2.el6.rf-noarch

Do I have to manually remove these? The reason is I want to fresh install it as something is messed up.

Solution

You do realise that locate looks at a database cache with filenames (created nightly/manually with the updatedb command) and not at your live file system.

locate does not reflect the actual state of your system.

You might want to use ls to look at /usr/share/phpmyadmin instead...

Comments

[Agent366]

Thanks! I'm pretty new to CentOS so I'm confused why they still appear. A config.inc.php.rpmsave is still there. Will deleting it "completely remove" phpmyadmin in my system?

[HBruijn]

Well behaved RPM packages can detect if you customised any configuration files from what was included in the package and will preserve those for you with the .rpmsave extension (on upgrade and when you remove the RPM package). You can safely delete those, but they don't conflict with a reinstall of the package either.

[Roman Diez]

Also you can manually run updatedb to refresh your locate database.