I installed MySQL 5.6.17 using binary file *.tar.gz
. I need to remove MySQL from my Ubuntu system. I tried running the following commands:
1) sudo apt-get remove --purge mysql-server mysql-client mysql-common
2) sudo apt-get autoremove
3) sudo apt-get autoclean
4) sudo deluser mysql
5) sudo rm -rf /var/lib/mysql
When the I execute the first command nothing seems to happen. Here is the output:
1)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package mysql-client is not installed, so not removed
Package mysql-common is not installed, so not removed
Package mysql-server is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
3)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
4)
Removing user `mysql' ...
Warning: group `mysql' has no more members.
userdel: user mysql is currently logged in
/usr/sbin/deluser: `/usr/sbin/userdel mysql' returned error code 8. Exiting.
5)
Executes. The directory is removed.
I am confused as to why it says Package mysql-server
is not installed, so not removed. I tried other names such as mysql-server-5.6
, mysql-server-5.6.17
but nothing seems to work. Can someone please help me with this?
I will really appreciate it.
Thanks.