# 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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Always quote anything containing asterisks or the shell might replace it with a matching filename.

Also, the data is stored in `/var/discourse` and it might not delete any images or containers docker has created or downloaded; those should live in `/var/lib/docker`, but that’s a blind guess. (They’d not hinder or affect a new installation anyway, just fill up some disk space.)

And does `apt-get` know that it needs to stop containers and the docker daemon itself before uninstalling the package?

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