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Purge and re-install mysql-server
# (Run as sudo)
# (Run after purge_mysql.sh)
apt-get install --reinstall mysql-server
# (Run as sudo)
# (Run first)
service mysql stop #or mysqld
killall -9 mysql
killall -9 mysqld
apt-get remove --purge mysql-server mysql-client mysql-common
apt-get autoremove
apt-get autoclean
deluser mysql
rm -rf /var/lib/mysql
apt-get purge mysql-server-core-5.5
apt-get purge mysql-client-core-5.5
reboot
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