I finally won. I had to remove both packages in the same command, otherwise the package manager would add in dependencies from other packages. It was a bit of a mess to resolve.
I will certainly be glad when the Oracle / MariaDB mess is resolved. The thought of restoring about 800gb worth of stuff on one system was not one I wanted to fight. Dave On Mon, 2017-04-10 at 02:12 -0500, Paul Boniol wrote: > Most package managers let you forcibly remove a package and ignore > errors but we'd need to know what you're trying to use to tell you > how / point you to a reference. > > Of course sudo rm -f <files-I-really-want-gone> will get rid of > things. May leave a quasi-broken system... but the files will be > gone. (You'd probably also want to tell the package manager to > ignore future updates for them if you go the rm route.) > > Paul > > On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 8:14 AM, Howard White <hwh...@vcch.com> wrote: > > Is it just time to backup and punt? Build a fresh install of ???; > > maybe even consider migrating to PostgreSQL? > > > > Howard > > > > > > On 04/08/2017 10:11 PM, David R. Wilson wrote: > > > Hi guys, > > > > > > I can't delete mysql without mariadb being installed. > > > I can't delete mariadb without mysql being installed. > > > > > > Any good ideas? > > > > > > Since Oracle forked MySQL it messed up both. > > > > > > Dave > > > > > > > > > > -- > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
