Re: How Do I Uninstall MySQL?

["Barry L. Kline" <blkline attglobal net>]

On Thursday 08 January 2004 08:17 pm, Zhao, Charles wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> This might be an easy question for some of you, but I am trying to
> uninstall MySQL 3.2 that came with my RH Linux 8.0 (in order to install
> 4.0), and it's components are scattered in different directories.  Is
> there anyway (and the right procedure) to uninstall it?
>
> Thanks

As root:

rpm -e $(rpm -qa | grep mysql)

If you want to see what this is going to do before you do it, then type:

rpm  --test -e -vv $(rpm -qa | grep mysql)

Barry