okay, i tried the purge of the odd mysql stuff...
root# apt-get --purge remove mysql\*
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Note, selecting mysql-server instead of virtual-mysql-server
Note, selecting mysql-base instead of mysql
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libdbd-mysql-perl* libmysqlclient6* mysql-doc*
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 29 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 3224kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 34321 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing libdbd-mysql-perl ...
Removing libmysqlclient6 ...
dpkg - warning: while removing libmysqlclient6, directory `/etc/mysql'
not empty so not removed.
Purging configuration files for libmysqlclient6 ...
Removing mysql-doc ...
root# dpkg -l mysql\*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-=================-=================-===============================
un mysql <none> (no description available)
rc mysql-base 3.21.33b-4 mysql database client binaries
in mysql-bench 3.22.32-2 (no description available)
pn mysql-client <none> (no description available)
un mysql-dev <none> (no description available)
pn mysql-doc <none> (no description available)
un mysql-manual <none> (no description available)
pn mysql-server <none> (no description available)
pn mysql-shared <none> (no description available)
root# apt-get install mysql-{server,doc,client}
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libmysqlclient6
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libmysqlclient6 mysql-client mysql-doc mysql-server
0 packages upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 29 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/2386kB of archives. After unpacking 4992kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Configuring packages ...
so that 'shared' stuck around even after an apt-get update and --purge.
now i gotta restore my users. i'll find that in the docs somewhere.
(what i find amusing is that i can get in via
mysql -u root <db>
but not
mysqladmin -u root password <newpass>
mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
error: 'Access denied for user: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (Using password:
YES)'
that doesn't make sense to me yet.)
