Removing Apache from Debian 5
Solution 1:
Try apt-get remove apache2-utils.
In Debian 5, Apache is split into multiple packages:
- apache2
- apache2-mpm-prefork (or apache2-mpm-worker or apache2-mpm-event)
- apache2.2-common
- apache2-utils
There are interdependencies: (1) depends on (2), which depends on (3), which depends on (4). Therefore, removing (4) causes all of them to be removed. (The apache2 package doesn't contain much in itself; it just exists so that you can do apt-get install apache2 to conveniently install all of those packages.)