I am working on a ubuntu server, and I installed mysql-server-8.0, and i can't remove it now ! I tried to remove packages after a grep:
sudo dpkg -P mysql-server-core-8.0 mysql-server-8.0 mysql-common mysql-client-core-8.0 mysql-client-8.0
Then I got :
dpkg: error processing package mysql-client-core-8.0 (--purge): dependency problems - not removing Errors were encountered while processing: mysql-server-8.0 mysql-common mysql-client-8.0 mysql-server-core-8.0 mysql-client-core-8.0
When I'm trying to connect to mysql :
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)
I tried this too :
sudo apt-get purge mysql* sudo apt-get autoremove sudo apt-get autoclean
But it looks like there is no solutions .. Some errors coming back a lot of times :
Failed to stop mysql.service: Unit mysql.service not loaded. invoke-rc.d: initscript mysql, action "stop" failed. /var/lib/dpkg/info/mysql-server-8.0.postinst: line 191: /usr/share/mysql-common/configure-symlinks: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing package mysql-server-8.0 (--configure): installed mysql-server-8.0 package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 127 Errors were encountered while processing: mysql-server-8.0
Do you have an idea how to remove all things concerning mysql(-server)/ubuntu ?