Centos – How to clean up thesql installation on centos

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mysql does not exist anymore but when i run yum remove mysql it says that the package is available but not marked for installation, i cannot install new mysql because of that, I need to completely delete everything related to it before installing new one, i do not have tables created so don't need to backup anything i tried to use the yum plugin yum-remove-with-leaves didn't work and didn't find any guide to install it properly, anyway i read on forums that it's buggy and should not be installed so I'm searching for other ways to remove mysql completely

and can i do it using sftp?

@quanta

the output of rpm -qa | grep mysql is

mysql55-libs-5.5.10-1.w5
libmysqlclientl5-5.0.77-1.1.w5
php-mysql-5.3.8-1.1.w5

EDIT

I tried

yum remove mysql
yum remove mysql-server
yum clean all

and it doesn't seem to fix it.

When I run yum install mysql mysql-server or yum install mysql or yum install install mysql-server i would get this

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Best Answer

yum remove mysql55-libs and try again.

Besides, I saw you used a lot of repos: atomic, dag, epel, rpmforge, livna, ..., it may be the cause of conflicting. In my opinion, atomic and (rpmforge or epel) are enough.

LATEST VERSION

To install the latest version as of today (MySQL 5.6.10) run this:

HOWMANYBITS=64
WHATOS=5
BINARY_VERSION=000
if [ ${HOWMANYBITS} -eq 32 ] ; then BINARY_VERSION=i386   ; fi
if [ ${HOWMANYBITS} -eq 64 ] ; then BINARY_VERSION=x86_64 ; fi
MYSQL_RELEASE=`curl -L http://www.mysql.com/downloads 2> /dev/null | grep 'Current Generally Available Release' | grep 'MySQL Community Server' | sed 's/.*Available Release://' | sed 's/)/ /g' | awk '{print $1}'`
MAJOR_RELEASE="`echo ${MYSQL_RELEASE} | sed 's/\./ /g' | awk '{print $1}'`.`echo ${MYSQL_RELEASE} | sed 's/\./ /g' | awk '{print $2}'`"
OS_VERSION=000
if [ ${WHATOS} -eq 0 ] ; then OS_VERSION=linux2.6 ; fi
if [ ${WHATOS} -eq 5 ] ; then OS_VERSION=rhel5    ; fi
if [ ${WHATOS} -eq 6 ] ; then OS_VERSION=el6    ; fi
RELEASE_TAG=1
DEVEL__RPM=http://www.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-${MAJOR_RELEASE}/MySQL-devel-${MYSQL_RELEASE}-${RELEASE_TAG}.${OS_VERSION}.${BINARY_VERSION}.rpm/from/http://mysql.mirrors.pair.com/
SHARD2_RPM=http://www.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-${MAJOR_RELEASE}/MySQL-shared-compat-${MYSQL_RELEASE}-${RELEASE_TAG}.${OS_VERSION}.${BINARY_VERSION}.rpm/from/http://mysql.mirrors.pair.com/
SHARED_RPM=http://www.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-${MAJOR_RELEASE}/MySQL-shared-${MYSQL_RELEASE}-${RELEASE_TAG}.${OS_VERSION}.${BINARY_VERSION}.rpm/from/http://mysql.mirrors.pair.com/
CLIENT_RPM=http://www.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-${MAJOR_RELEASE}/MySQL-client-${MYSQL_RELEASE}-${RELEASE_TAG}.${OS_VERSION}.${BINARY_VERSION}.rpm/from/http://mysql.mirrors.pair.com/
SERVER_RPM=http://www.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-${MAJOR_RELEASE}/MySQL-server-${MYSQL_RELEASE}-${RELEASE_TAG}.${OS_VERSION}.${BINARY_VERSION}.rpm/from/http://mysql.mirrors.pair.com/
PERL_LOCATION=ftp://ftp.de.netclusive.de/pub/parallels/Plesk/Expand/2.3.1/packages
PERL_FILE=perl-DBI-1.53-2.fc7.x86_64.rpm
PERL_URL=${PERL_LOCATION}/${PERL_FILE}
cd
MYSQL_INSTALL_FOLDER=MySQL_${MYSQL_RELEASE}_Install
rm -rf ${MYSQL_INSTALL_FOLDER}
mkdir ${MYSQL_INSTALL_FOLDER}
cd ${MYSQL_INSTALL_FOLDER}
wget ${PERL_URL}
wget ${DEVEL__RPM}
wget ${SHARD2_RPM}
wget ${SHARED_RPM}
wget ${CLIENT_RPM}
wget ${SERVER_RPM}
ls -lSr *.rpm
for RPM in `ls -lSr *.rpm | awk '{print $9}'` ; do rpm -Uvh --force ${RPM} ; done

SPECIFIC VERSION

To install a specific version, set the following:

MYSQL_VERSION (5.5, 5.1, 5.0)
MYSQL_VERSION_RELNUM

For example to get MySQL 5.1.66, run this:

MYSQL_VERSION=5.1
MYSQL_VERSION_RELNUM=66
MYSQL_VERSION_RELEASE=${MYSQL_VERSION}.${MYSQL_VERSION_RELNUM}
REDHAT_RELEASE=5
BINARY_VERSION=x86_64
PERL_LOCATION=ftp://ftp.de.netclusive.de/pub/parallels/Plesk/Expand/2.3.1/packages
PERL_FILE=perl-DBI-1.53-2.fc7.x86_64.rpm
PERL_URL=${PERL_LOCATION}/${PERL_FILE}
MYSQL_MIRROR=http://mysql.mirrors.pair.com/
MYSQL_MIRROR=http://mirror.trouble-free.net/mysql_mirror/
MYSQL_MIRROR=http:http://mysql.he.net/
MYSQL_MIRROR_INDEX=1
MYSQL_SHARE2_LIB=MySQL-shared-compat-${MYSQL_VERSION_RELEASE}-${MYSQL_MIRROR_INDEX}.rhel${REDHAT_RELEASE}.${BINARY_VERSION}.rpm
MYSQL_SHARED_LIB=MySQL-shared-community-${MYSQL_VERSION_RELEASE}-${MYSQL_MIRROR_INDEX}.rhel${REDHAT_RELEASE}.${BINARY_VERSION}.rpm
MYSQL_DEVEL__LIB=MySQL-devel-community-${MYSQL_VERSION_RELEASE}-${MYSQL_MIRROR_INDEX}.rhel${REDHAT_RELEASE}.${BINARY_VERSION}.rpm
MYSQL_CLIENT_LIB=MySQL-client-community-${MYSQL_VERSION_RELEASE}-${MYSQL_MIRROR_INDEX}.rhel${REDHAT_RELEASE}.${BINARY_VERSION}.rpm
MYSQL_SERVER_LIB=MySQL-server-community-${MYSQL_VERSION_RELEASE}-${MYSQL_MIRROR_INDEX}.rhel${REDHAT_RELEASE}.${BINARY_VERSION}.rpm
MYSQL_SHARE2_URL="http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-${MYSQL_VERSION}/${MYSQL_SHARE2_LIB}/from/${MYSQL_MIRROR}"
MYSQL_SHARED_URL="http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-${MYSQL_VERSION}/${MYSQL_SHARED_LIB}/from/${MYSQL_MIRROR}"
MYSQL_CLIENT_URL="http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-${MYSQL_VERSION}/${MYSQL_CLIENT_LIB}/from/${MYSQL_MIRROR}"
MYSQL_DEVEL__URL="http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-${MYSQL_VERSION}/${MYSQL_DEVEL__LIB}/from/${MYSQL_MIRROR}"
MYSQL_SERVER_URL="http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-${MYSQL_VERSION}/${MYSQL_SERVER_LIB}/from/${MYSQL_MIRROR}"
cd
MYSQL_INSTALL_FOLDER=MySQL_${MYSQL_VERSION_RELEASE}_Install
rm -rf ${MYSQL_INSTALL_FOLDER}
mkdir ${MYSQL_INSTALL_FOLDER}
cd ${MYSQL_INSTALL_FOLDER}
wget ${PERL_URL}
wget ${MYSQL_SHARE2_URL}
wget ${MYSQL_SHARED_URL}
wget ${MYSQL_DEVEL__URL}
wget ${MYSQL_CLIENT_URL}
wget ${MYSQL_SERVER_URL}
pwd
ls -l
for RPM in `ls -lSr *.rpm | awk '{print $9}'` ; do rpm -Uvh --force ${RPM} ; done

REPOSITORIES WITH OLDER VERSIONS

If these do not help, you can bum off of other repositories

SkySQL Archives
Percona Binaries

You will have to script these yourself.

MySQL Removal – Does Removing MySQL with yum Remove the Data?

I doubt the MySQL-server package you have installed from some third party (maybe mysql.com) would remove the databases on package removal but you can always see what scripts are run pre/post install in an RPM

rpm --query --scripts MySQL-server

should show all the scripts associated with the package and you can read through them to see what is automated. you can also check to see if there are any triggers which would run scripts via RPM as well. rpm --help is your friend, look at all the reporting options available with --query

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