When trying to install MariaDB 10.1 in an Ubuntu 16.04 Server with previous MySQL installed, even purging MySQL with sudo apt-get purge mysql*, I get this error message and the install process fail.
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To ensure that everything is clean, you not only need to purge MySQL (and MariaDB) with:
sudo apt-get purge mysql* mariadb*
But you also need to remove old MySQL config folders, with:
sudo rm -rf /etc/mysql
sudo rm -rf /var/log/mysql
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/mysql
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/mysql-files
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/mysql-keyring
After these steps and correctly adding the MariaDB repositories, you can finally:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install mariadb-server
answered Aug 3 '16 at 19:30
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One liner to remove config folders:
sudo rm -rf /etc/mysql && sudo rm -rf /var/log/mysql && sudo rm -rf /var/lib/mysql && sudo rm -rf /var/lib/mysql-files && sudo rm -rf /var/lib/mysql-keyring– Paulo Coghi Oct 18 '18 at 11:00
