I've been having a problem with my php, apache, mysql. I can't find the problem so I'M gong to uninstall all of them and re-install them using tasksel. But when I type sudo apt-get remove mysql, it returns the following:
garrett@mint-desktop ~ $ sudo apt-get remove mysql
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package mysql
Any ideas?
Try mysql-server and mysql-client, these are metapackages that redirect to the latest version available in repositories. If it doesn't match try dpkg -l mysql-* it will list all the packages related to mysql. And to remove them all, you can run dpkg -r mysql-*
EDIT
You can use --purge to remove also the config files: dpkg --purge mysql-*
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