How to Remove Squid on CentOS 6.3

Squid service plays two main roles which mainly act as a caching proxy server between the user and the web. Second role, squid also regularly used as a content accelerator, or reverse proxy, intercepting requests to a server and using a cached version of the page to serve the request.

To remove squid service, execute the following command :

[root@centos63 ~]# yum remove squid -y

Examples :

[root@centos63 ~]# yum remove squid -y
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto
Setting up Remove Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package squid.i686 7:3.1.10-1.el6_2.4 will be erased
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

====================================================================================================
 Package         Arch           Version                       Repository                       Size
====================================================================================================
Removing:
 squid           i686           7:3.1.10-1.el6_2.4            @CentOS6.3-Repository           5.7 M

Transaction Summary
====================================================================================================
Remove        1 Package(s)

Installed size: 5.7 M
Downloading Packages:
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Erasing    : 7:squid-3.1.10-1.el6_2.4.i686                                                    1/1
  Verifying  : 7:squid-3.1.10-1.el6_2.4.i686                                                    1/1

Removed:
  squid.i686 7:3.1.10-1.el6_2.4

Complete!