How to purge completly a broken MySQL

[stan]

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 04:07:25PM -0500, steve wrote:
> Hal Burgiss wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 02:41:20PM -0500, stan wrote:
> >> How can I force a complete purge of this package?
> > 
> > apt-get purge ....
> > 
> > AFAIK, that will remove all remnants of the original installation.
> > 
> 
> sudo apt-get remove --purge packagename
> 
That results in:

Package mysql-server-5.0 is not installed, so not removed
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