Removing certificate and re-running update-ca-certificates leaves lingering symlinks

Solution 1:

According to the man pages for update-ca-certificates, add the -f switch to remove symlinks in /etc/ssl/certs

-f, --fresh
          Fresh updates.  Remove symlinks in /etc/ssl/certs directory.

This will create a new ca-certificate.crt file without your root CA certificate and remove the symlink.

sudo update-ca-certificates -f