When you want to completely remove MySQL 5.5 from your local Ubuntu LAMP server, you can use these terminal commands:
sudo service mysql stop sudo killall -9 mysql sudo killall -9 mysqld sudo apt-get remove --purge mysql-server mysql-client mysql-common sudo apt-get autoremove sudo apt-get autoclean sudo deluser mysql sudo rm -rf /var/lib/mysql sudo apt-get purge mysql-server-core-5.5 sudo apt-get purge mysql-client-core-5.5
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