# Need To Purge percona-server-server-5.6 without any prompt? **URL:** \ **Category:** Other MySQL® Questions\ **Created:** [September 23, 2014, 12:55am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/need-to-purge-percona-server-server-5-6-without-any-prompt/3763 "2014-09-23T00:55:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Harshad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/97f17d/32.png) [@Harshad](https://forums.percona.com/u/Harshad)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2014, 12:55am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/need-to-purge-percona-server-server-5-6-without-any-prompt/3763/1 "2014-09-23T00:55:56Z")
Hi Team, I am using Percona Server on Ubuntu and Debian distrributions. I want to purge percona-server-server-5.6 package without any prompt. I used this command to purge package `apt-get -y purge percona-server-server-5.6` . It still prompts though i used ‘-y’ option. Could you tell me how should i purge percona-server-server-5.6 without prompt? ---
**Author:** ![jrivera](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/jrivera/32/13_2.png) [@jrivera](https://forums.percona.com/u/jrivera)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2014, 9:00am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/need-to-purge-percona-server-server-5-6-without-any-prompt/3763/2 "2014-09-23T09:00:46Z")
Harshad, ## You can run this to avoid the prompt: root@ubuntu:/# export DEBIAN\_FRONTEND=noninteractive; apt-get -y purge percona-server-server-5.6 percona-server-client-5.6 Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree Reading state information… Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libnet-daemon-perl libaio1 libdbi-perl libmysqlclient18 libperconaserverclient18.1 libdbd-mysql-perl libplrpc-perl percona-server-common-5.6 Use ‘apt-get autoremove’ to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: percona-server-client-5.6\* percona-server-server-5.6\* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded. After this operation, 141 MB disk space will be freed. (Reading database … 17711 files and directories currently installed.) Removing percona-server-server-5.6 … - Stopping MySQL (Percona Server) mysqld [OK] Purging configuration files for percona-server-server-5.6 … Removing percona-server-client-5.6 … Processing triggers for ureadahead … Please note that the default setting is to not remove all databases from the datadir. ## You can then run: root@ubuntu:/# export DEBIAN\_FRONTEND=dialog to revert back to the default frontend setting. Is Percona Server installed on your staging/testing environment? Are you evaluating Percona Server 5.6? Let us know if the above suggestion helps. ---
**Author:** ![Harshad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/97f17d/32.png) [@Harshad](https://forums.percona.com/u/Harshad)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2014, 5:57am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/need-to-purge-percona-server-server-5-6-without-any-prompt/3763/3 "2014-09-24T05:57:35Z")
Thank you jrivera, for your reply. But it didn’t solve my problem completely. after export DEBIAN\_FRONTEND=noninteractive; apt-get -y purge percona-server-server-5.6 percona-server-client-5.6; it didn’t prompt me for remove files from /var/lib/mysql/. but it didnot removed files from /var/lib/mysql/ . I want to purge percona-server-server-5.6 completely. How do i achieve that??