Reverting Debian to Clean Install

[nveid]

Hey, I currently have a server on the net.. Its not exactly local so its hard to revert the server to a clean install remotely..

Anyone have any suggestions for how to revert a server to a clean installation for plesk without actually doing the reinstallation process, or what the risks involved are in installing Plesk on a server that isn't 'clean'?

-- RLB

 

[roeschu]

hi

the risk maybe that some daemons will not work.

maybe you wanna try to completely deinstall all the "major" things (that will plesk install)

in first line these are apache, php,mysql,named,qmail,courier etc.

i guess the best would be to do a "dpkg --purge " for all the software that you have to remove (--purge removes software *and* conf files and directories...apt-get remove only removes software..)

greets

 

[nveid]

Hey, I recently did it(uninstalled most of the debian packages to bring it as close to a clean install as possible).. And everything went fine, my server is still alive. Wasn't many problems, except for teh general pain I heard from most people installing plesk on a debian system.

I eventually had to install every plesk package myself with dpkg, force some, and in a specific order as listed in teh txt file.. Did it in groups of what related to each other. That way I could notice of what dependancies were needed and I would apt-get those.

Anywho, after all that. I still had some problems specifically with smtp not working, my mailman didn't, domains didn't add right.... Well after searching forums these were common problems and found the solutions.

Good luck for any any future forum searchers.