[SOLVED] not able to completely remove mysql from ubuntu

Issue

I'm trying out this command to completely remove mysql from an aws instance Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS

sudo apt-get remove mysql*

But it's throwing all kinds of errors:

// important ones:

Failed to stop mysql.service: Unit mysql.service not loaded.
invoke-rc.d: initscript mysql, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing package mysql-server-8.0 (--remove):
installed mysql-server-8.0 package pre-removal script subprocess returned error exit status 1

and then at the end:

Errors were encountered while processing:
mysql-server-8.0
Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

when I type out:

whereis mysql

I see:

mysql: /usr/bin/mysql /usr/lib/mysql /usr/share/mysql /usr/share/man/man1/mysql.1.gz

I'm pretty sure I messed up somewhere during it's removal and I'm not sure how to get it back on track.

Is there a way to purge everything without using the dpkg?

Thanks.

Solution

As seen here:

sudo systemctl disable mysql
sudo apt remove mysql*
sudo apt purge mysql*
sudo apt autoremove

I also deleted know mysql files and directories:

sudo rm -r /etc/mysql /var/lib/mysql /var/log/mysql

And the files and directories shown when running

whereis mysql

Answered By - dxvargas