# remove mysql **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [July 15, 2020, 3:38pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/remove-mysql/33405 "2020-07-15T15:38:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tony\_Wong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3ab097/32.png) [@Tony\_Wong](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Tony_Wong)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 3:38pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/remove-mysql/33405/1 "2020-07-15T15:38:55Z")
trying to remove mysql from a previous install ---
**Author:** ![racke](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/racke/32/4767_2.png) [@racke](https://forum.ansible.com/u/racke)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 4:32pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/remove-mysql/33405/2 "2020-07-15T16:32:33Z")
> trying to remove mysql from a previous install > > -- > - hosts: all > become: true > vars\_files: > - vars/default.yml > > tasks: > - name: Uninstall MySQL packages. > apt: name={{ item }} state=absent > with\_items: > - mysql-server > - mysql-client > > but not working To me it looks like it works (removing the packages), but your syntax is outdated. It should be    apt:      name:        - mysql-server        - mysql-client Regards          Racke ---
**Author:** ![Tony\_Wong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3ab097/32.png) [@Tony\_Wong](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Tony_Wong)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 4:55pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/remove-mysql/33405/3 "2020-07-15T16:55:44Z")
> this was the original install and I am just trying to reverse the installs ---
**Author:** ![Tony\_Wong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3ab097/32.png) [@Tony\_Wong](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Tony_Wong)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 5:21pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/remove-mysql/33405/4 "2020-07-15T17:21:21Z")
I tried this pb but its not uninstalling ---
**Author:** ![dan\_linder](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/dan_linder/32/3833_2.png) [@dan\_linder](https://forum.ansible.com/u/dan_linder)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 7:28pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/remove-mysql/33405/5 "2020-07-15T19:28:01Z")
> I tried this pb but its not uninstalling Can you be more specific? What version of Ansible are you using, what version of Debian/Ubuntu is the server you’re working on? What is the output of this command when you run it on the machine you’re wanting to remove the packages from: apt list | egrep ‘^mysql-server/|^mysql-client/|^python3-pymysql/|^php/|^libapache2-mod-php/’ Can you write a playbook with just the single task and run it with “-vvv” and paste the output in a response here? The indenting in your previous example is slightly askew, and it is missing the “state: absent” parameter, but I’ll make the assumption that is just a copy-and-paste error. ---
**Author:** ![racke](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/racke/32/4767_2.png) [@racke](https://forum.ansible.com/u/racke)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 7:34pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/remove-mysql/33405/6 "2020-07-15T19:34:16Z")
>     this was the original install and I am just trying to reverse the installs What is the distribution and the release of the target server(s)? Regards           Racke ---
**Author:** ![Tony\_Wong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3ab097/32.png) [@Tony\_Wong](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Tony_Wong)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2020, 1:58pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/remove-mysql/33405/7 "2020-07-16T13:58:15Z")
control server is ubuntu 19.10 client is 20.04 ok working now are these 2 pb doing same thing? ---
**Author:** ![dan\_linder](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/dan_linder/32/3833_2.png) [@dan\_linder](https://forum.ansible.com/u/dan_linder)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2020, 3:51pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/remove-mysql/33405/8 "2020-07-16T15:51:05Z")
The actions that those two tasks perform look to be the same, but you should update the “name:” field to better reflect that the job is removing/un-installing those packages.