Completely remove or uninstall MySQL from Ubuntu

   March 30, 2018  Posted in Databases, MySQL, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17, Uncategorized Tagged ,

If you in any cases need to remove or uninstall MySQL from Ubuntu, follow the following steps. Before running following commands make sure MySql is not running.

  1. sudo apt-get remove --purge mysql*
  2. sudo apt-get purge mysql*
  3. sudo apt-get autoremove
  4. sudo apt-get autoclean
  5. sudo apt-get remove dbconfig-mysql
  6. sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
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