How To Uninstall MySQL from apt-get

 

To remove mysql completely from your system Just type in terminal 

•     sudo apt-get remove --purge mysql-server mysql-client mysql-common
•     sudo apt-get autoremove
•     sudo apt-get autoclean

How to UnInstall all packages in apt-get in Ubuntu:

apt-get --purge remove <package>

sudo apt-get purge <list of packages found>

apt-get clean

dpkg --get-selection | grep deinstall > <llist of packages found>

How To find version of software in linux

# php -v
PHP 5.3.2 (cli) (built: May 19 2010 03:43:49)

# mysql -V
mysql  Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.1.47, for pc-linux-gnu (i686) using readline 5.1

Get the path of the service

Get the path of running Apache

$ ps -ef | grep apache
apache   12846 14590  0 Oct20 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2

Append -V argument to the path

$ /usr/sbin/apache2 -V | grep SERVER_CONFIG_FILE
-D SERVER_CONFIG_FILE="/etc/apache2/apache2.conf"