Completely remove openssl dev version

Question

I installed openssl dev version from github. However, I now wish to remove it to install openssl from the official repos.

I tried to remove it using sudo apt-get remove --purge openssl but it's still available to me through terminal.

goelakash@goelakash-acer:~/softwares$ openssl version
OpenSSL 1.1.0-pre3-dev  xx XXX xxxx

How do I get rid of the this version?

see http://askubuntu.com/questions/318775/what-is-openssl-binaries-and-openssl-development-package — Rinzwind, Feb 25 '16 at 08:39
Possible duplicate of If I build a package from source how can I uninstall or remove completely? — muru, Feb 25 '16 at 08:45

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 25 '16 at 08:51

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I removed the executable by first finding where the current version of openssl was residing:

whereis openssl

and then reinstalling openssl

sudo apt-get install openssl

answered Feb 25 '16 at 08:51

goelakash

1

How did you remove the paths returned by whereas openssl? Just using rm -rf? – user997112 Aug 26 '22 at 15:37

score -1 · Answer 2 · edited May 31 '19 at 10:20

-1

Just type this command on terminal:

sudo apt-get remove openssl

edited May 31 '19 at 10:20

Kulfy

answered May 30 '19 at 15:36

Simpy Parveen

2

I haven't tried that, because I'm not into losing my system due to someone's unwise post on this platform, but most likely this is going to render your system useless, so don't do it! For example, in my system this says "The following packages will be REMOVED" and then it lists half of the core most important system packages. – Íhor Mé Mar 28 '20 at 20:40
I actually removed a certain openssl version like that and then reinstalled all of the packages that were removed. Note, that they seem to depend on exactly the version supplied, so you'll probably have to reinstall it to have them anyway. – Íhor Mé Apr 01 '20 at 08:59

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