[Bug 527355] Re: Uninstall MySQL 5.1 impossible

[Mathias Gug]

On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 05:58:05PM -0000, Lars Carlsson wrote:
> Hi,
> My installation of mysql from sources was done after removing the ubuntu
> package of mysql 5.1 and trying to install the ubuntu package of mysql
> 5.0.

Downgrading from 5.1 to 5.0 is not supported. If you've purged mysql-5.1 you
should also make sure that the data directory (/var/lib/mysql) is empty before
installing mysql-5.0 - not that you may loose data by deleting /var/lib/mysql/

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Uninstall MySQL 5.1 impossible
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