How to uninstall MySQL from ubuntu 20.04

This tutorial is for How to uninstall MySQL from ubuntu 20.04. While upgrading from ubuntu 18.04 to ubuntu 20.04, we faced one issue that we unexpected. we incidents are caused by MySQL server updates while setting up the MySQL by apt. it is hanging on the server and it will not work for leaving it for around two hours.

So we decide to remove the MySQL server and again install, the below step that we were done.

Remove MySQL

sudo apt-get remove --purge mysql*

Remove purge

sudo apt-get purge mysql*

Autoremove and autoclean

sudo apt-get autoremove

sudo apt-get autoclean

Remove database configure

sudo apt-get remove dbconfig-mysql

Dist upgrade

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Install MYSQL

sudo apt-get install mysql-server

Check MYSQL Status

sudo service mysql status