Having trouble removing apache2

[timClicks]

$ sudo apt-get purge apache2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libterm-readline-perl-perl
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
apache2*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 36.9kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database ... 246519 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing apache2 ...
$ /etc/init.d/apache2 status
* Apache is running (pid 21327).


Can anyone make sense of this?

[hemimaniac]

did you try

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 stop

then try to remove it, packages don't like being jerked out if they are running, may also need to kill anything depending on it

[timClicks]

Looks like that's helped! Thanks :)