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Omid
Asked: 2017-08-15 04:02:50 +0800 CST

Removing MariaDB Installs MySQL and vice-versa

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A very stupid problem I'm facing on Ubuntu 16.04. I want to remove both MySQL and MariaDB client. If running apt remove mysql-client* I get this message:

The following additional packages will be installed:
  mariadb-client mariadb-client-10.0 mariadb-client-core-10.0 mariadb-common
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  mysql-client mysql-client-5.7 mysql-client-core-5.7
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  mariadb-client mariadb-client-10.0 mariadb-client-core-10.0 mariadb-common

And it removes MySQL but installs MariaDB instead. Then If I try to remove MariaDB, again MySQL will be installed automatically.

What the hell is this? How to get rid of both of them?

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Try to remove both:

    sudo apt remove mysql-client* mariadb*
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