Typically following Mysql packages are installed on the Debian or Ubuntu Linux systems:
Tutorial details
Difficulty Easy (rss)
Root privileges Yes
Requirements Ubuntu/Debian
Estimated completion time 2m


  1. mysql-client - The latest version of MySQL database client.
  2. mysql-server - The latest version of MySQL database server.
  3. mysql-common - MySQL database common files.

How do I uninstall Mysql server?

Just use the apt-get command as follows remove both MySQL server and client in Ubuntu Linux:


sudo apt-get --purge remove mysql-client mysql-server mysql-common
sudo apt-get autoremove
Sample outputs (pay attention to package names):
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
linux-headers-3.2.0-31-virtual linux-headers-3.2.0-31
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libdbd-mysql-perl* libmysqlclient18* mysql-client* mysql-client-5.5* mysql-common* mysql-server*
mysql-server-5.5*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 7 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 67.5 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 105097 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing mysql-server ...
Removing mysql-server-5.5 ...
mysql stop/waiting
Purging configuration files for mysql-server-5.5 ...
Removing mysql-client ...
Removing mysql-client-5.5 ...
Removing libdbd-mysql-perl ...
Removing libmysqlclient18 ...
Purging configuration files for libmysqlclient18 ...
Removing mysql-common ...
Purging configuration files for mysql-common ...
dpkg: warning: while removing mysql-common, directory '/etc/mysql' not empty so not removed.
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
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Delete /etc/mysql/ directory using rm command:
$ sudo rm -rf /etc/mysql/
Understanding apt-get command options

  • --purge : Remove given packages and config files.
  • remove : Uninstall packages.
  • autoremove : Force to remove packages that were automatically installed to satisfy dependencies for other packages and are now no longer needed.
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