On 12/14/05, Siju George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/14/05, Jo Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Siju George wrote: > > > > > > > > Are you using Sarge for i386, or Sarge for AMD64? You can't interchange > > packages - whilst i386 Sarge includes AMD64 kernels and a few 64-bit > > compatability libraries, you can't install _amd64.deb files on it, and > > apt/aptitude/synaptic will not allow you to use amd64 stuff. > > > > If you want to use 64-bit packages, use 64-bit Debian. > > > > --Jo Shields > > > > Thankyou so much Helge and Jo. > > They are 64 bit :-) > > but I faced a problem removing mysql-server. Details below. > How can you remove all installed packages with their configs ( Purge) > and get back the original base system??? > > I cannot do a re-install cause the server is not near by :-( > > Thankyou so much :-) > > kind regards > > Siju >
Sorry, Forgot to give the details in previous mail :-( ------------------ # dpkg -P mysql-server-5.0 (Reading database ... 30784 files and directories currently installed.) Removing mysql-server-5.0 ... Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld. Purging configuration files for mysql-server-5.0 ... rm: cannot remove directory `/var/lib/mysql': Device or resource busy dpkg: error processing mysql-server-5.0 (--purge): subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: mysql-server-5.0 oss40:/var/cache/apt/archives# man dpkg Reformatting dpkg(8), please wait... oss40:/var/cache/apt/archives# apt-get install mysql-server-5.0 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done mysql-server-5.0 is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. oss40:/var/cache/apt/archives# apt-get remove --purge mysql-server-5.0 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: mysql-server-5.0* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 40.9MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... 30626 files and directories currently installed.) Removing mysql-server-5.0 ... Purging configuration files for mysql-server-5.0 ... rm: cannot remove directory `/var/lib/mysql': Device or resource busy dpkg: error processing mysql-server-5.0 (--purge): subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: mysql-server-5.0 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Thnakyou so much again :-) kind regards Siju
