How to purge completly a broken MySQL

[NoOp]

On 01/10/2009 03:40 PM, stan wrote:
> 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

Reinstall it and then purge it. Here is what it installs (note the '-s'
which means that I've "simulated" the install" so nothing actually got
installed on my system):

$ sudo apt-get install -s mysql-server-5.0
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libnet-daemon-perl libplrpc-perl
  mysql-client-5.0
Suggested packages:
  dbishell mysql-doc-5.0 tinyca
Recommended packages:
  libterm-readkey-perl apparmor libhtml-template-perl
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libnet-daemon-perl libplrpc-perl
  mysql-client-5.0 mysql-server-5.0
0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Inst libnet-daemon-perl (0.38-1.1 Ubuntu:8.04/hardy)
Inst libplrpc-perl (0.2017-1.1 Ubuntu:8.04/hardy)
Inst libdbi-perl (1.601-1 Ubuntu:8.04/hardy)
Inst libdbd-mysql-perl (4.005-1 Ubuntu:8.04/hardy)
Inst mysql-client-5.0 (5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.4 Ubuntu:8.04/hardy-updates)
Inst mysql-server-5.0 (5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.4 Ubuntu:8.04/hardy-updates)
Conf libnet-daemon-perl (0.38-1.1 Ubuntu:8.04/hardy)
Conf libplrpc-perl (0.2017-1.1 Ubuntu:8.04/hardy)
Conf libdbi-perl (1.601-1 Ubuntu:8.04/hardy)
Conf libdbd-mysql-perl (4.005-1 Ubuntu:8.04/hardy)
Conf mysql-client-5.0 (5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.4 Ubuntu:8.04/hardy-updates)
Conf mysql-server-5.0 (5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.4 Ubuntu:8.04/hardy-updates)

So, reinstall:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall mysql-server-5.0

and then purge it:

sudo apt-get remove --purge mysql-server-5.0

and you should be ok.