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apt gives a “Segmentation faulty tree”

By jacob | Published: October 1, 2008
when running an update: sudo aptitude Ouch!  Got SIGSEGV, dying.. apparently, just remove some files: sudo rm /var/cache/apt/*.bin now everything is back to normal.
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Uninstall MySQL 5 from Debian

By jacob | Published: September 27, 2008
I completely. completely messed up MySQL. Badly. I wiped out the data directory (/var/lib/mysql in Debian) and the went to remove mysql … apt-get remove --purge mysql-server That only deleted something like 86K. dissapointing. It looks like “mysql-server” is a shortcut pointing to the latest version of the software. The real software is found  under the name [...]
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