Fix doesn't work for me: david@aquinas:~$ sudo apt-get purge mysql-server-5.6 mysql-server Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: mysql-server* mysql-server-5.6* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 2 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 52.5 MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y (Reading database ... 193939 files and directories currently installed.) Removing mysql-server (5.6.23-1~exp1~ubuntu3) ... Removing mysql-server-5.6 (5.6.23-1~exp1~ubuntu3) ... /usr/bin/deb-systemd-helper: error: unable to link /etc/systemd/system/mysql.service to /dev/null: File exists dpkg: error processing package mysql-server-5.6 (--purge): subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 1 Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.0.2-5) ... Errors were encountered while processing: mysql-server-5.6 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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