Trying to deinstall MySQL in Ubuntu 9.04

[mrs1179]

I'm trying to deinstall MySQL so that I can start over and do a clean install.

I have done sudo apt-get remove to delete the packages, but they don't appear to be completely gone. After doing that, I still seem to have some components left. This is what I see now:

dpkg --get-selections |grep mysql

libmysqlclient16				deinstall
mysql-client-5.1				deinstall
mysql-server-5.1				deinstall

Can someone explain what it means when "deinstall" is displayed, and how I can completely and cleanly get rid of the MySQL components?

[Mohammad_Reza]

I'm trying to deinstall MySQL so that I can start over and do a clean install.

I have done sudo apt-get remove to delete the packages, but they don't appear to be completely gone. After doing that, I still seem to have some components left. This is what I see now:

dpkg --get-selections |grep mysql

libmysqlclient16				deinstall
mysql-client-5.1				deinstall
mysql-server-5.1				deinstall

Can someone explain what it means when "deinstall" is displayed, and how I can completely and cleanly get rid of the MySQL components?

Just run on terminal:

sudo apt-get install mysql-server

[bigtomrodney]

You can use the purge option to remove the config files too. Either choose the purge option in Synaptic when uninstalling or use

sudo apt-get --purge remove mysql-server

Of course you'll have to run this with the package installed.