Completely remove MariaDB or MySQL from CentOS 7 or RHEL 7

Completely remove MariaDB or MySQL from CentOS 7 or RHEL 7

 

•  sudo yum remove -y mariadb mariadb-server && sudo rm -rf /var/lib/mysql /etc/my.cnf

If Above Command does not work

• yum remove mariadb mariadb-server
• rm -rf /var/lib/mysql
• rm /etc/my.cnf
• yum install mariadb mariadb-serve
• yum remove MariaDB-server MariaDB-client
• sudo systemctl stop mysqld.service && sudo yum remove -y mariadb mariadb-server && sudo rm -rf /var/lib/mysql /etc/my.cnf
• rpm -qa | grep mariadb
• rpm -e --nodeps "mariadb-libs-5.5.56-2.el7.x86_64"
• rpm -e --nodeps "mariadb-server-5.5.56-2.el7.x86_64"
• rpm -e --nodeps "mariadb-5.5.56-2.el7.x86_64"
• rm -f /var/log/mariadb
• rm -f /var/log/mariadb/mariadb.log.rpmsave
• rm -rf /var/lib/mysql
• rm -rf /usr/lib64/mysql
• rm -rf /usr/share/mysql