How to delete tomcat8 and related files like docs examples admin?

Question

I installed tomcat8 and then tried to use tomcat8-docs webapp manager but link did not work.

Can you please guide me to uninstall completely tomcat8 along with docs examples admin and other files.

Welcome to Ask Ubuntu! Could you please [edit] your question to add your Ubuntu release and explain how you installed Tomcat in the first place? Thanks. — David Foerster, Aug 16 '18 at 06:29

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 16 '18 at 04:49

Follow this on the command line

sudo apt remove --purge tomcat8 tomcat8-docs
sudo apt autoremove
sudo apt autoclean

Use the above to purge any app from your system including config files.

Once this is complete you can use something like find or locate to remove any remaining stragglers.

sudo apt install locate && sudo updatedb
locate tomcat

And you can manually delete anything that might remain.

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