MySQL :: Uninstalling

Sometimes it becomes mor cumbersome to uninstall something rather installing. MySQL is no different.

If you install it from rpm then follow these commands to uninstall.

# rpm -qa | grep -i mysql
mysql-libs-5.0.45-4.fc8
php-mysql-5.2.4-3
# rpm -e php-mysql-5.2.4-3
# rpm -e mysql-libs-5.0.45-4.fc8

In case of an installation from source distrobution, you can unistall mysql by going to that extracted installion directory (the directory you used to build/install mysql) and type in the following.

shell> make -n uninstall
then type
shell> make distclean

Following this, go delete the directory that it was installed to (i.e. /usr/local/mysql )

Thats all to uninstall MySQL from your PC.