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I have been having trouble with my MySql setup. This morning it was a working mysql server I added a database and some data with phpMyAdmin then things started to go wrong.

I became unable to connect getting ERROR 2002 unable to connect to socket.

I have completley unistalled mysql server (as best I can) and deleted database files. And now I cannot reinstall it. I get a dpkg error "post-instalation script returned error exit status 1".

Running dpkg-reconfigure reports that "mysql-server-5.1 is broken or not fully installed" how do I find out what it is looking for?

The only thing I have removed is the mysql-server packages, I did install vsftpd at some point shortly before MySql stopped woking, is this known to break MySql??

Any thoughts apreciated

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Check what packages of myslq are/is still installed:

sudo dpkg -l | grep mysql*

To completely remove remaining mysql packages do:

sudo dpkg -P mysql*

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To remove broken packages of mysql or similar use following : sudo apt-get autoremove and sudo apt-get autoclean. Now try to make fresh installation again for mysql.

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