How to purge completly a broken MySQL

[NoOp]

On 01/10/2009 06:13 PM, stan wrote:
> 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.

And you purged mysql-common because? Here is what happens when if I were
to do that on my system:

~$ sudo apt-get purge -s mysql-common
[sudo] password for <>?:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
  libogdi3.2 proj libgeos2c2a libgeos-c1 libhdf5-serial-1.6.5-0 libhdf4g
  libpqxx-2.6.9ldbl
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  amarok* amarok-xine* gstreamer-dbus-media-service*
  gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad* kexi* kspread* kword* libgdal1-1.4.0*
libgmyth0*
  libmysqlclient15off* libqgis-core1* libqgis-gui1* mysql-common* qgis*
  totem-plugins-extra*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 15 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Purg amarok [2:1.4.9.1-0ubuntu3.1+medibuntu1] [amarok-xine ]
Purg amarok-xine [2:1.4.9.1-0ubuntu3.1+medibuntu1]
Purg gstreamer-dbus-media-service [0.1.17-0ubuntu1]
Purg gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad [0.10.6-5ubuntu0.1]
Purg kword [1:1.6.3-4ubuntu7]
Purg kspread [1:1.6.3-4ubuntu7]
Purg kexi [1:1.6.3-4ubuntu7]
Purg qgis [1.0.0~hardy1]
Purg libqgis-gui1 [1.0.0~hardy1]
Purg libqgis-core1 [1.0.0~hardy1]
Purg libgdal1-1.4.0 [1.4.4-1ubuntu3]
Purg totem-plugins-extra [2.22.1-0ubuntu2]
Purg libgmyth0 [0.7.debian1-1~hardy1]
Purg libmysqlclient15off [5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.4]
Purg mysql-common [5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.4]

Note: the list will not be the same on your system unless you have kword
etc installed.

The *only* commands suggested were:

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

and

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