How to remove installed packages
I installed a 32 bit MySQL workbench packages. But I faced many problems and tried to find answers here ... then I've known that my Ubuntu is 64 bit ... and downloaded the version of MySQL for 64 bit.
When I've typed:
sudo dpkg -i mysql_64_bit.deb
The system asked me to remove the oldest one so I typed:
teeba@ubuntu:~/Downloads$ sudo dpkg -r mysql-workbench-community-6.0.9-1ubu1204-i386.deb
I've gotten the following:
dpkg: error: you must specify packages by their own names, not by quoting the names of the files they come in
Type dpkg --help for help about installing and deinstalling packages [*];
Use `dselect' or `aptitude' for user-friendly package management;
Type dpkg -Dhelp for a list of dpkg debug flag values;
Type dpkg --force-help for a list of forcing options;
Type dpkg-deb --help for help about manipulating *.deb files;
Options marked [*] produce a lot of output - pipe it through `less' or `more' !
Can anyone give me the right way to install the right one and remove the oldest one?
dpkg --get-selections | grep mysql
The above command will displays all the packages that have the word mysql
.From that you can find the exact one and then remove it by running,
sudo dpkg -P <packageName>
The below command does not remove the installed mysql
package,
teeba@ubuntu:~/Downloads$ sudo dpkg -r mysql-workbench-community-6.0.9-1ubu1204-i386.deb
Try doing it from the apt-get tool, after you add the repository for My
sudo apt-get remove --purge mysql-workbench
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install mysql-workbench
Does it still give you errors?