I accidentally drop the database mysql. I now cannot restore tables to the database or do much of anything some details can be found here http://serverfault.com/questions/234321/i-accidently-dropped-the-mysql-db/234340#234340
after a few unsuccessful uninstalled/reinstalls i wrote whereis mysql and rm -rf every directory in that list. I ran `dpkg -P mysql-server`. `apt-get install mysql-server` saw "Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld.", ran `/etc/init.d/mysql start` and got the error "Starting MySQL database server: mysqld . . . . . . . . . . . . . . failed!". I wrote whereis mysql again and got NO DIRECTORIES. How do i properly reinstall this? I cant even restore my backups because of this. Yes i did all of this as root
