removing files from ec2 server

Question

I have installed rails with Nginx in EC2 server.Now I want to remove all the installed application from that.So for removing all of them I am using sudo apt-get remove --purge .But some times the files are not being removed.So how can I do that.I have only user access.

Answer 1

You'll need to get root access (which is the default access you get when you create an EC2 instance, so someone in your organization should have it). Removing packages requires root.