# How to uninstall/remove docker and discourse

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-uninstall-remove-docker-and-discourse/26777>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [Março 25, 2015, 5:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-uninstall-remove-docker-and-discourse/26777 "2015-03-25T17:53:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![jack2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac91a4/32.png) [@jack2](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jack2)\
**Post date:** [Fevereiro 24, 2017, 5:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-uninstall-remove-docker-and-discourse/26777/10 "2017-02-24T17:29:14Z")

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Putting all together, this is what I did (and it seemed to work):

```plaintext
sudo apt-get purge docker-engine
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/docker
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo rm -rf /var/discourse -R

```

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