How can I remove jenkins completely from linux

Question

I have deleted jenkins all directories from different folders. But still when I access URL it is showing me jenkins login.

I want to uninstall jenkins completely. Have t

Answer 1

For sentOs, it's works for me At first stop service by sudo service jenkins stop

Than remove by sudo yum remove jenkins

Answer 2

On Centos7, It is important to note that while you remove jenkins using following command: sudo yum remove jenkins

it will not remove your users and other information. For that you will have to do following: sudo rm -r /var/lib/jenkins

Answer 3

if you are ubuntu user than try this:

sudo apt-get remove jenkins
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove jenkins

'apt-get remove' command is use to remove package.

Answer 4

If your jenkins is running as service instead of process you should stop it first using

sudo service jenkins stop

After stopping it you can follow the normal flow of removing it using commands respective to your linux flavour

For centos it will be

sudo yum remove jenkins

For ubuntu it will

sudo apt-get remove --purge jenkins

I hope this will solve your issue.

Answer 5

First - stop Jenkins service:

sudo service jenkins stop

Next - delete:

sudo apt-get remove --purge jenkins

If you used separate server for Jenkins, some GCP or AWS - just delete this server. Here is a video how to uninstall Jenkins from GCP Compute Engine https://youtu.be/D2HUFAc_Trw