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How To Completely Removing MySQL Server in CentOS

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In this tutorial we will show you how to completely removing of MySQL on your CentOS server. For
those of you who didnt know, MySQL is a relational database management system (RDBMS) that
runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. The MySQL source code is
freely available because it was originally developed as freeware. MySQL is written in C and C++ and
is compatible with all major operating systems. MySQL can be used for a variety of applications, but is
most commonly found on Web servers.

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This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of linux, know how to use the shell, and most
importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The uninstall or removing is quite simple. I will
show you through the step by step removing MySQL on CentOS server. May be its good idea to
backup databases before doing this.

Completely Removing MySQL Server in CentOS

Step 1: Check list the mysql rpm which is installed on server
1 #rpm -qa | grep mysql
2 or
3 #yum list installed | grep mysql

Step 2 : Removing all mysql-related packages (with yum remove)

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1 #yum remove mysql-client mysql-server mysql-common mysql-devel

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Step 3: Delete the databases folder

1 #rm -rf /var/lib/mysql/
2 #rm -rf /etc/my.cnf

If you dont know how to reinstall mysql database server, check out our tutorial here.
Congratulations! You have successfully removes MySQL. Thanks for using this tutorial for
removingMySQL server on CentOS system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend
you to check the ofcial MySQL web site .

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Steven Bruce Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania

This guide is no longer accurate and doesn't install. there are no
php5 packages in ubuntu 16.04 only php7 which is compatible but
doing these steps does not bring joomla up.
Like Reply Jul 14, 2016 5:20am

Steven Bruce Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania

So I was able to get it to install, the problem is with the PHP
packages. after you install 'LAMP' you have to install php7.0-xml.
Following the rest of the directions then joomla proceeds to work.
however if you don't install LAMP and do the packages manually
Joomla still doesn't work. So I'm not sure what is missing with the
manual install of php7.0 but it works when LAMP was installed vs
manually installing all the packages.
Like Reply Jul 14, 2016 11:28am

Steven Bruce Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania

Also noticed you need to install php-mcrypt as well through apt. At
the end of Joomlas set up it will tell you.
Like Reply Jul 14, 2016 12:05pm

idr00t
thx...edited
Like Reply Jul 14, 2016 7:25pm
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