How to uninstall or remove heartbleeder software package from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

How to uninstall or remove heartbleeder software package from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

You can uninstall or removes an installed heartbleeder package itself from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) through the terminal,

$ sudo apt-get remove heartbleeder 

Uninstall heartbleeder including dependent package

If you would like to remove heartbleeder and it's dependent packages which are no longer needed from Ubuntu,

$ sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove heartbleeder 
Use Purging heartbleeder

If you use with purge options to heartbleeder package all the configuration and dependent packages will be removed.

$ sudo apt-get purge heartbleeder 

If you use purge options along with auto remove, will be removed everything regarding the package, It's really useful when you want to reinstall again.

$ sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove heartbleeder 

See Also,

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