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What exactly is installed with apt-get install?

I am trying to install Owncloud on my VPS and I had issues with the migration from version 8 to version 9. So I decided to apt-get purge owncloud && apt-get install owncloud to get a fresh installation.

The bad news is my configuration is still there, somewhere. I have absolutely no idea what is installed with apt-get install and, more important, where.

If I have this information I can figure out where is my config and how to reconfigure Apache to point to my new owncloud installation.

EDIT

My current issue is that I have absolutely no idea where the wwwroot is installed. I have nothing inside /var/www neither in /usr/share/. Knowing what was installed using apt-get might be very useful...

Solution

  • owncloud is a big package with a lot of different things.

    You should have:

    • An apache configuration file in /etc/apache2/sites-available (probably named owncloud.conf)
    • A table in a database. This is up to how you configured owncloud the first time. The config of your owncloud is in that table.
    • The files of owncloud itself. If you removed it probably they are gone.

    For the database:

    If you have MySQL, do 

    sudo mysql -u root -p

    to connecto to the database, then do 

    SHOW DATABASES;

    check if you have a database that is named similar to owncloud, and then drop it:

    DROP DATABASE databaseName;

    In this way your configuration should be gone.

    If you have PostgreSQL, the procedure is similar, but with different commands:

    sudo -u postgres psql
\l
DROP DATABASE databaseName;