remove complete mariaDB in ubuntu 14.04

remove_complete_mariaDB.sh

sudo apt-get remove mariadb-server
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove mariadb-server
sudo apt-get purge mariadb-server
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove mariadb-server

ramana_sharma@ramana:~$ sudo apt-get remove mariadb-server
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
apache2-data libapr1 libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 libaprutil1-ldap liblua5.1-0 libmecab2
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
mariadb-server
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 481 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 62.5 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
(Reading database ... 269039 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing mariadb-server (10.0.38-0ubuntu0.16.04.1) ...
Setting up mariadb-server-10.0 (10.0.38-0ubuntu0.16.04.1) ...
Job for mysql.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status mysql.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript mysql, action "start" failed.
● mysql.service - LSB: Start and stop the mysql database server daemon
Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/mysql; bad; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2019-06-18 11:49:19 IST; 3ms ago
Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
Process: 9929 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/mysql start (code=exited, status=127)
Main PID: 958 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
CGroup: /system.slice/mysql.service
├─ 9958 /bin/bash /usr/bin/mysqld_safe
└─10028 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --plugin-dir=/usr/lib/mysql/plugin --user=mysql --log-error=/var/lib/mysql/r...

Jun 18 11:49:18 ramana systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Start and stop the mysql database server daemon...
Jun 18 11:49:18 ramana mysql[9929]: * /etc/init.d/mysql: WARNING: /etc/mysql/my.cnf cannot be read. See README.Debian.gz
Jun 18 11:49:18 ramana mysql[9929]: * Starting MariaDB database server mysqld
Jun 18 11:49:19 ramana mysql[9929]: ...done.
Jun 18 11:49:19 ramana mysql[9929]: /etc/init.d/mysql: line 124: /etc/mysql/debian-start: No such file or directory
Jun 18 11:49:19 ramana systemd[1]: mysql.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=127
dpkg: error processing package mariadb-server-10.0 (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
mariadb-server-10.0
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
ramana_sharma@ramana:~$ sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove mariadb-server
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package 'mariadb-server' is not installed, so not removed
The following packages will be REMOVED:
apache2-data libapr1 libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 libaprutil1-ldap liblua5.1-0 libmecab2
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 7 to remove and 481 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 3,786 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
(Reading database ... 269036 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing apache2-data (2.4.18-2ubuntu3.10) ...
Removing libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3:amd64 (1.5.4-1build1) ...
Removing libaprutil1-ldap:amd64 (1.5.4-1build1) ...
Removing libaprutil1:amd64 (1.5.4-1build1) ...
Removing libapr1:amd64 (1.5.2-3) ...
Removing liblua5.1-0:amd64 (5.1.5-8ubuntu1) ...
Removing libmecab2 (0.996-1.2ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu10) ...
Setting up mariadb-server-10.0 (10.0.38-0ubuntu0.16.04.1) ...

its not working man

what is your os version, I am using Ubuntu 14.04.

it's working, thanks!

• sudo apt-get remove --purge mysql*
• sudo apt-get purge mysql*
• sudo apt-get autoremove
• sudo apt-get autoclean
• sudo apt-get remove dbconfig-mysql
• sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

to clean/un-install the mysql

@bhattaraisuman that is for remove mysql.