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Asked: 2026-05-13T11:56:03+00:00

Normally I would install phusion passenger via the gem command, but this wouldn’t work

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Normally I would install phusion passenger via the gem command, but this wouldn’t work for me, so I had to install it via a tarball and then run the installer.

My question is, how do I uninstall it?

dpkg -l | grep passenger

doesn’t return anything. When I list the installed gems, I don’t see anything either.

So i guess I have two questions
1) If installed by tarball/installer, how to uninstall
2) If I came upon this system, how could I even tell that passenger is installed? It doesn’t seem to show up anywhere?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You should read what the Passenger documentation has to say about removal.

    The only guaranteed indicator of a passenger installation is the passenger file in the apache configuration. Usually /etc/apache2/conf.d/passenger. You must remove it, and then uninstall passenger in a method dependent on how it was installed.

    If installed from a gem:

    # gem uninstall passenger

    If installed from a tarball:

    remove the installation directory, Which is noted as the PassengerRoot directive in the aforementioned configuration file.

    If installed form a deb file:

    # sudo apt-get remove libapache2-mod-passenger
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