How to completely remove phpMyAdmin without knowing its password?

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Open a terminal and type:

sudo apt-get remove --purge phpmyadmin

or as Rinzwind noted

sudo apt-get purge phpmyadmin

this should (1) remove phpmyadmin and (2) remove its settings files and so on too.

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Mohammad Kermani

Around 2010, I started teaching myself programming to build tools and programs for awesome humans in the world. First years, I learned a lot from different books, forums, and especially Stackoverflow, the open, warm and kind community which helped me a lot to getting started; In response to this huge favor by Stackoverflow community, I tried to help other people and gain the awesome feeling of being helpful for others.

Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

Mohammad Kermani over 1 year

I know there are more questions about this problem "How to remove phpMyAdmin" but they did not work, because I lost my password! I lost my phpMyAdmin and MySQL password and username! I don't remember what they were and I just want to remove them because I deleted some of phpMyAdmin files suddenly + I don't use it, I use Cassandra and NEO4J and I don't use MySQL...

So, How can I remove them without having password and usename?
- Rinzwind almost 8 years
  
  Removing software does not require you to provide a password or username for the software itself. You need your "sudo" password and to use your "sudo" user.
RAlexander over 3 years

Don't forget to run sudo apt autoremove and sudo apt autoclean afterwards to make sure it's all gone.