Remove mysql Completely error

Solution 1:

What helped me

sudo systemctl disable mysql

then afterwards remove/purge or whatever.

sudo apt autoremove 

did its job.... done

Solution 2:

The actions you need to take: 1. Get all mysql-related components 2. Remove all mysql component installed 3. Clean up installation directory (you can rename the folder if you need the old data)

The yum way, which I found better:

yum list installed | grep mysql
yum remove mysql-client mysql-server mysql-common mysql-devel

The apt-get way:

sudo apt-get remove --purge mysql*
sudo apt-get purge mysql*
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo apt-get remove dbconfig-mysql
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Remove data & configuration

rm -rf /var/lib/mysql/
rm -rf /etc/my.cnf