Completely remove mysql from Linux

Question

I am trying to remove Mysql completely from my system with the command but always getting not found error

[name@archserver]$ sudo pacman -R mysql
error: target not found: mysql
[name@archserver]$ sudo pacman -R mysqld 
error: target not found: mysqld

When I try to find out where is MySql,

[name@archserver]$ whereis mysql
mysql: /usr/bin/mysql /usr/lib/mysql /etc/mysql /usr/include/mysql /usr/share/mysql /usr/share/man/man1/mysql.1.gz

How can I remove Mysql from my system?

Answer 1

pacman -Ql mysql | less will give you a list of files installed by the package. To uninstall mysql and all its dependencies that are not needed by any other packages try sudo pacman -Rns mysql.

mysqld is a daemon though. i suggest you take a look at the links below.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Daemons

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman