I am trying to uninstall mysql from my ubuntu 12.04 completely. But not able to.
I tried a lot of commands. But nothing is working. Can anyone help out here!
sudo apt-get remove mysql-server mysql-client mysql-common
sudo apt-get autoremove
I am not able to understand what to do. I want to remove everything regarding MySQL. Whenever I am trying to locate it. I am getting that.
I want everything to be removed. mysql-server, mysql-client, mysql-libraries and even configuration.
Please help me!!!
Answer
First of all, do a backup of your needed databases with mysqldump
Note: If you want to restore later, just backup your relevant databases, and not the WHOLE, because the whole database might actually be the reason you need to purge and reinstall).
In total, do this:
sudo service mysql stop #or mysqld
sudo killall -9 mysql
sudo killall -9 mysqld
sudo apt-get remove --purge mysql-server mysql-client mysql-common
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo deluser -f mysql
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/mysql
sudo apt-get purge mysql-server-core-5.7
sudo apt-get purge mysql-client-core-5.7
sudo rm -rf /var/log/mysql
sudo rm -rf /etc/mysql
All above commands in single line (just copy and paste):
sudo service mysql stop && sudo killall -9 mysql && sudo killall -9 mysqld && sudo apt-get remove --purge mysql-server mysql-client mysql-common && sudo apt-get autoremove && sudo apt-get autoclean && sudo deluser mysql && sudo rm -rf /var/lib/mysql && sudo apt-get purge mysql-server-core-5.7 && sudo apt-get purge mysql-client-core-5.7 && sudo rm -rf /var/log/mysql && sudo rm -rf /etc/mysql