I am trying a clean install of mysql so I tried uninstalling mysql-client and mysql-server. I can't seem to uninstall mysql-server-core-5.5 using sudo dpkg --remove mysql-server-core-5.5
because of its dependency with akonadi.
dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of mysql-server-core-5.5:
akonadi-backend-mysql depends on mysql-server-core-5.5.
dpkg: error processing mysql-server-core-5.5 (--purge):
dependency problems - not removing
Errors were encountered while processing:
mysql-server-core-5.5