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How to Uninstall cloudlinux and convert back to centos cpanel server

In this article we will show you how to uninstall CloudLinux and convert back to Centos cPanel server. First we should know that CloudLinux supports all the hardware supported by RHEL/CentOS. There are some exceptions, which are the hardware that require binary drivers and do not contain any open source alternatives.

Steps To Uninstall CloudLinux And Convert Back To Centos

  • Uninstallation CloudLinux
				
					wget https://repo.cloudlinux.com/cloudlinux/sources/cln/cldeploy
sh cldeploy -c

				
			
  • Verify If CloudLinux Installed
				
					/usr/local/cpanel/bin/cloudlinux_system_install -c
				
			
  • Update your CentOS-provided RPMs
				
					yum upgrade -y
				
			
  • Rebuild Apache server
				
					/usr/local/cpanel/scripts/easyapache –build
				
			
  • Reinstall non CloudLinux kernel
				
					yum –disableexcludes=all install kernel
				
			
  • Remove CloudLinux Kernell
				
					rpm -qa |awk ‘/^kernel.*lve/ {print $1|”xargs yum -y erase”}’
				
			
  • Reinstall any CloudLinux provided RPMs that also provided by CentOS
				
					rpm -qa –qf “[%{VENDOR} %{NAME}n]“|awk ‘/CloudLinux/ {print $2|”xargs yum reinstall -y”}’
				
			
  • Downgrade any RPMs provided by CloudLinux to the CentOS version
				
					rpm -qa –qf “[%{VENDOR} %{NAME}n]“|awk ‘/CloudLinux/ {print $2|”xargs yum downgrade -y”}’
				
			
  • Remove any remaining CloudLinux RPMs
				
					rpm -qa –qf “[%{VENDOR} %{NAME}n]“|awk ‘/CloudLinux/ {print $2|”xargs yum erase -y”}’
				
			
  • Upgrade all downgraded CentOS provided RPMs
				
					yum upgrade -y
				
			
  • Reboot the server for Uninstall Cloudlinux to use the new non-CloudLinux kernel.
				
					reboot
				
			

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