[ubuntu-za] MySQL

[Bill Cairns]

On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 11:28 +0200, Jason Norwood-Young wrote:
> It just occurred to me that the easiest way to see if MySql is being
> used is just to check what databases are on there. You can log in from
> the command line (mysql -u root) and then list the databases (SHOW
> databases;).
> 
> If nothing's there apart from the mysql database then I'd say it's safe
> to uninstall it.

Curiouser and curiouser. "mysql -u root" just gives "Command not found"
indicating that mysql is not actually installed. What is installed is
mysql-common and some libraries.

I just froze the versions and am carrying on ...

One of the dependencies is ubuntu-desktop. Who is he?

Bill