RE: mariadb uninstall/reinstall-Solved

Thanks to all for your help. Dan's suggestion (below) worked. Larry -Original Message- From: Dan Ritter [mailto:d...@randomstring.org] Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2017 11:04 AM To: larry owens Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: mariadb uninstall/reinstall On Thu, Sep 14

Re: mariadb uninstall/reinstall

Cindy-Sue Causey writes: > I was wondering about that. I a-sumed maybe it tried to over-purge > other important packages the way that happens sometimes. There is no risk: only explicitly named packages are purged. The rest are deleted on demand. -- Alberto

Re: mariadb uninstall/reinstall

On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 08:36:33AM -0700, larry owens wrote: > Colleagues > > I've been a loyal Debian user since (I believe) release 4. I also use > Debian as the basis for a college course I teach in C programming so the > students get 'nix exposure in addition to C. As is my custom I

Re: mariadb uninstall/reinstall

On 9/14/17, Alberto Luaces wrote: > "larry owens" writes: > >> Colleagues >> > > [...] > >> Unfortunately I >> have been unable to find a set of instructions to safely remove >> Maria. Can anyone point me to a working process (the one's on the web >> currently don't seem to work).

Re: mariadb uninstall/reinstall

"larry owens" writes: > Colleagues > [...] > Unfortunately I > have been unable to find a set of instructions to safely remove > Maria. Can anyone point me to a working process (the one's on the web > currently don't seem to work). TIA Hi, as long as you installed it from Debian packages, you

mariadb uninstall/reinstall

Colleagues I've been a loyal Debian user since (I believe) release 4. I also use Debian as the basis for a college course I teach in C programming so the students get 'nix exposure in addition to C. As is my custom I typically wait a few months after a new release and then convert to the new