Remove MySQL 5.5 Completely from Ubuntu LAMP

Updated March 12, 2017     Leave a comment on Remove MySQL 5.5 Completely from Ubuntu LAMP
Originally posted March 31, 2015

Shell and Bash

When you want to completely remove MySQL 5.5 from your local Ubuntu LAMP server, you can use these terminal commands:

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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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