{"id":18405,"date":"2026-09-29T23:33:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T20:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/knowledgebase\/uninstall-webmin-linux\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T23:33:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T20:33:50","password":"","slug":"uninstall-webmin-linux","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/knowledgebase\/uninstall-webmin-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Uninstall Webmin on Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hy-tldr\" style=\"background:#f6f7fb;border-left:4px solid #d83954;border-radius:10px;padding:14px 18px;margin:0 0 20px;line-height:1.8\"><strong>In short:<\/strong> To remove Webmin from a Linux server: on RHEL, CentOS or Fedora run rpm -e webmin if you installed it from an RPM package, or \/etc\/webmin\/uninstall.sh if you installed it from a tar file. On Debian or Ubuntu run apt-get &#8211;purge remove webmin, and on Solaris run pkgrm WSwebmin.<\/div>\n<p>Connect to your server over SSH as root (see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/knowledgebase\/how-to-connect-to-a-server-via-ssh\/\">how to connect to your server over SSH<\/a>), then run the command for your system.<\/p>\n<h2>RHEL, CentOS, AlmaLinux and Fedora<\/h2>\n<p>If Webmin was installed from an RPM package:<\/p>\n<pre>rpm -e webmin<\/pre>\n<p>If it was installed from the tar file on the Webmin website:<\/p>\n<pre>\/etc\/webmin\/uninstall.sh<\/pre>\n<p>The script asks for confirmation, stops Webmin and deletes its files:<\/p>\n<pre>Are you sure you want to uninstall Webmin? (y\/n) : y\nStopping Webmin server ...\nRunning uninstall scripts ..\nDeleting \/etc\/webmin ..\nDone!<\/pre>\n<h2>Debian and Ubuntu<\/h2>\n<pre>apt-get --purge remove webmin<\/pre>\n<h2>Solaris<\/h2>\n<pre>pkgrm WSwebmin<\/pre>\n<p><strong>Tip:<\/strong> after removing Webmin, close its port (10000 by default) in your firewall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hy-svc-link\" style=\"background:#fff5f7;border-left:4px solid #d83954;border-radius:10px;padding:14px 18px;margin:20px 0;line-height:1.8\"><strong>Related service:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/server-management\/\">Hyyat Host server management<\/a> takes care of your server software and security, with 24\/7 support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In short: To remove Webmin from a Linux server: on RHEL, CentOS or Fedora run rpm -e webmin if you installed it from an RPM package, or \/etc\/webmin\/uninstall.sh if you installed it from a tar file. On Debian or Ubuntu run apt-get &#8211;purge remove webmin, and on Solaris run pkgrm WSwebmin. Connect to your server [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_templately_pack_id":"","_templately_imported_at":"","_templately_source":"","_templately_import_session_id":"","footnotes":""},"doc_category":[2733],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-18405","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-servers-without-control-panel"],"year_month":"2026-10","word_count":173,"total_views":"5","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"admin","author_nicename":"admin","author_url":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/author\/admin\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"servers without control panel","term_url":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/kb\/servers-without-control-panel\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[],"knowledge_base_slug":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/18405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/18405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=18405"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=18405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}