Uninstall MySQL – How to Remove MySQL from Your System

MySQLsoftware-uninstall

I installed MySQL using sudo apt-get. Now I need to remove it from my system.

How can I do that?

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I assume that you don't need MySQL anymore and you have already taken backup of your important databases. I suggest you to take backup of your important MySQL databases.

Note: Your all mysql data will be lost.

First make sure that MySQL service is stopped.

sudo systemctl stop mysql

Remove MySQL related all packages completely.

sudo apt-get purge mysql-server mysql-client mysql-common mysql-server-core-* mysql-client-core-*

Remove MySQL configuration and data. If you have changed database location in your MySQL configuration, you need to replace /var/lib/mysql according to it.

sudo rm -rf /etc/mysql /var/lib/mysql

(Optional) Remove unnecessary packages.

sudo apt autoremove

(Optional) Remove apt cache.

sudo apt autoclean

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Ubuntu – Is MySQL still running after uninstall it

The error does not mean that you still have MYSQL server running. In fact, if the client can not connect to it, probably you don't have it running.

You still have the client available for execution: mysql

You can find out the package where mysql is, with:

dpkg -S `which mysql`

Then remove it, if you really want to do that.

Ubuntu – How install or uninstall half-installed thesql-client-5.6 on/from ubuntu 15.10

I had the same issue on VM with Ubuntu 14.04. The only thing worked for me is similar to what Richard Uijen has suggested:

sudo apt-get --purge remove mysql*
sudo apt-get autoremove mysql*
sudo rm -rf /etc/mysql/
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/mysql/
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --reinstall mysql-client-5.6

Basically you need to remove all mysql packages (mysql*), clean and install again

After that I could install php7 mysql client without any issues

sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php7.0 php7.0-mysql

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