How to purge completly a broken MySQL

[stan]

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 04:06:42PM -0800, NoOp wrote:
> 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.

Well, people can quit worrying about this. Running

apt-get remove --purge apt-get remove --purge mysql-server-5.0
mysql-common  mysql-client-5.0

Pretty much completly destoryed my system.
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