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Terence Kearns <tjk@interact.net.au> writes:

> Hi, I am a new user of Linux.

> When I installed Debian which came with the option of installing msql -
> a very old version of msql.

Log in as root and type:

  dpkg --purge msql msqld msql-doc 

BTW:

 "dpkg -l"       will list the package that you currently have installed.  
 "dpkg -L msql"  will list all of the files in the package named "msql"


> I wanted to 'uninstall' the old version before installing a new version.
> Unfortanuately msql files seemed to be scattered all over my disk (just
> by doing a 'find / -name msql*' ) so I gave up trying to find them all.
> I've just installed a new version since buying 'the official guide to
> msql 2.0'

> Then I got Permission denied when running msqladmin as root - turns out
> that version 1 daemon of msqld is still running.

> Does anyone know where I can find doco on where these packages install
> themselves?  I want to do a clean uninstall of version 1 (or all
> versions for that matter) and then re-install version 2.

"man dpkg" will tell you more about the dpkg program, 

  http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/debian-faq-6.html

has more information on how the packaging system works.


Steve
dunham@cps.msu.edu