Greetings again ^^!

Hehe, now I have Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake running all cool ! However, as I'm also a web developer I wanted to do the same thing I used to do in Windoze with some program named PHPDev (in Linux terms, some kind of automatic PHP+Apache+MySQL+PHPLibs-everything-localhost script :P) and I use for programming. I don't want to run it in WINE as I know that Linux already has these apps and WINE may screw up too, so I'm trying the native option.

I followed the following guide, in these steps:

http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Dapper#H...Server_service
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Dapper#How_to_install_PHP4
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Dapper#H...he_HTTP_Server (which also led me to http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Dapper#Database_Server)

Everything worked cool, until...

I screwed it up xD. It was late at night and I didn't read and copy-pasted "mysqladmin -u root password your-new-password". Everything would work fine with "your-new-password" but wasn't exactly very fast to type (and very.... generic xD) so I tried some attempts to change it: I couldn't, so I tried

apt-get remove --purge mysql apache2 php4

And it didn't work, there were still orphan mysql files, so in an attempt to delete it I deleted /var/lib/mysql (I think) and then the service didn't want to restart, but neither regenerated the database it needed again, and says something about a missing mysql.sock.

My question then, is the following one: What can I do for brute-forcing delete of EVERYTHING Mysql+Apache+PHP4 related so I can start again as if it was a clean install? I don't want to reinstall Ubuntu just 'cause of this ...

Thanks in advance

you possibly could just reinstall everything and what is left would get overwritten.

or you can use find or locate to find all the associated files and delete them.

All you had to do was:

Tried that, I thought it would, but it didn't work :/

Well I din't know that :P. What about MySQL though?

Solved: Alright, it looked like I had to remove --purge the "mysql-common" package. Got its name by downloading it from the MySQL website. I wondered if there was a package with that name and voilá. It wanted to uninstall ubuntu-desktop though (dunno why) but then I reinstalled the packages it deleted, and followed the guide again, and it was all fixed.

Man, I only wish APT was more specific in ALL the packages it installs -_-' surely it'll save lots of headaches :/