#database #linux #mysql #sysadmin

If you ever want to remove MySQL Server 8 from your system (Ubuntu 20 in my case), you need to perform the following steps:

1$ sudo apt-get remove --purge mysql-server-8.0 mysql-client-8.0 mysql-common -y
2$ sudo apt-get autoremove -y
3$ sudo apt-get autoclean
4$ sudo rm -rf /etc/mysql