Can't remove wordpress no matter what I do...

I have been at this for three hours. Why I have been at this for three hours you ask? Because when I go to install a theme it says....
Could not create directory. /var/www/wordpress/wp-content/upgrade/terminally.tmp
Therefore I thought to myself. I will reinstall wordpress by terminal. I can not remove wordpress.
When I do
sudo apt-get purge wordpress
After changing directories to the file wordpress it says...
Reading state information... Done
Package 'wordpress' is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 263 not upgraded.
I even tried doing
rm -R wordpress
I do not know what to do. Please help me remove wordpress.
Thanks,
Julia

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Originally Posted by julia3

I have been at this for three hours. Why I have been at this for three hours you ask? Because when I go to install a theme it says....
Could not create directory. /var/www/wordpress/wp-content/upgrade/terminally.tmp
Therefore I thought to myself. I will reinstall wordpress by terminal. I can not remove wordpress.
When I do
sudo apt-get purge wordpress
After changing directories to the file wordpress it says...
Reading state information... Done
Package 'wordpress' is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 263 not upgraded.
I even tried doing
rm -R wordpress
I do not know what to do. Please help me remove wordpress.
Thanks,
Julia

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Did you install Wordpress manually? If so, carefully copy and paste the following EXACTLY to your command line:

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sudo rm -rf /var/www/wordpress

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This will remove your wordpress files, but not your database. Be extremely careful, as a typo can make a mess of things.

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Originally Posted by lisati

Did you install Wordpress manually? If so, carefully copy and paste the following EXACTLY to your command line:

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sudo rm -rf /var/www/wordperss

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This will remove your wordpress files, but not your database. Be extremely careful, as a typo can make a mess of things.

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Hi lisati - is the spelling of your command accurate?

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Originally Posted by BlinkinCat

Hi lisati - is the spelling of your command accurate?

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Well spotted, thank you.
Corrected as follows:

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sudo rm -rf /var/www/wordpress

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Thanks for your reply. This is solved.
sudo rm -rf /var/www/wordpress worked.
I was able to unistall wordpress and then reinstall it. Thanks.