How to uninstall or remove ca-certificates software package from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

How to uninstall or remove ca-certificates software package from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

You can uninstall or removes an installed ca-certificates package itself from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) through the terminal,

$ sudo apt-get remove ca-certificates 

Uninstall ca-certificates including dependent package

If you would like to remove ca-certificates and it's dependent packages which are no longer needed from Ubuntu,

$ sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove ca-certificates 
Use Purging ca-certificates

If you use with purge options to ca-certificates package all the configuration and dependent packages will be removed.

$ sudo apt-get purge ca-certificates 

If you use purge options along with auto remove, will be removed everything regarding the package, It's really useful when you want to reinstall again.

$ sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove ca-certificates 

See Also,

How to install ca-certificates software package from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) ?