I was unable to uninstall my phpMyAdmin due to some error I committed while trying to install it. After that while trying to uninstall it I started to get the following errors:
Errors were encountered while processing:phpmyadminE: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Eventually the steps below worked for me:
Step 1:
Step 2:
Step 3:
Now delete the phpMyAdmin files:
Step 4:
Verify whether the phpMyAdmin files are still around:
You should get the following message 'Package 'phpmyadmin' is not installed, so not removed' which confirms all the phpMyAdmin files have successfully been removed.
Step 5:
Finally if you wish you may install phpMyAdmin again:
Errors were encountered while processing:phpmyadminE: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Eventually the steps below worked for me:
Step 1:
cd /var/lib/dpkg/info/
Step 2:
ls -l phpmyadmin.*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 165 2008-03-05 21:42 phpmyadmin.conffiles
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 287 2008-03-05 21:42 phpmyadmin.config
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33524 2008-08-06 11:31 phpmyadmin.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 51996 2008-03-05 21:42 phpmyadmin.md5sums
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3286 2008-03-05 21:42 phpmyadmin.postinst
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1762 2008-03-05 21:42 phpmyadmin.postrm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1762 2008-08-06 09:12 phpmyadmin.postrm.orig
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 339 2008-03-05 21:42 phpmyadmin.preinst
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22441 2008-03-05 21:42 phpmyadmin.templates
Step 3:
Now delete the phpMyAdmin files:
sudo rm -r phpmyadmin.*
Step 4:
Verify whether the phpMyAdmin files are still around:
sudo apt-get remove phpmyadmin
You should get the following message 'Package 'phpmyadmin' is not installed, so not removed' which confirms all the phpMyAdmin files have successfully been removed.
Step 5:
Finally if you wish you may install phpMyAdmin again:
sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin
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