所以我在机器上乱搞 mariadb 安装，现在陷入困境。我现在既不能安装也不能删除它。
当我尝试安装时：
~# apt-get install mariadb-server
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
mariadb-server
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/11.7 kB of archives.
After this operation, 66.6 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package mariadb-server.
(Reading database ... 595805 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../mariadb-server_5.5.49-1ubuntu0.14.04.1_all.deb ...
Unpacking mariadb-server (5.5.49-1ubuntu0.14.04.1) ...
Setting up mariadb-server-5.5 (5.5.49-1ubuntu0.14.04.1) ...
* Stopping MariaDB database server mysqld [ OK ]
* Starting MariaDB database server mysqld [fail]
invoke-rc.d: initscript mysql, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing package mariadb-server-5.5 (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mariadb-server:
mariadb-server depends on mariadb-server-5.5 (>= 5.5.49-1ubuntu0.14.04.1); however:
Package mariadb-server-5.5 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package mariadb-server (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
当我尝试删除时：
~# apt-get remove mariadb-server
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libmariadbclient18 libmysqlclient18
libterm-readkey-perl mariadb-client-5.5 mariadb-client-core-5.5
mariadb-common mariadb-server-5.5 mariadb-server-core-5.5 mysql-common
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
mariadb-server
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 66.6 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 595806 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing mariadb-server (5.5.49-1ubuntu0.14.04.1) ...
Setting up mariadb-server-5.5 (5.5.49-1ubuntu0.14.04.1) ...
* Stopping MariaDB database server mysqld [ OK ]
160515 16:57:38 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld (mysqld 5.5.49-MariaDB-1ubuntu0.14.04.1) starting as process 30979 ...
* Starting MariaDB database server mysqld [fail]
invoke-rc.d: initscript mysql, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing package mariadb-server-5.5 (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
mariadb-server-5.5
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
我觉得我把事情搞砸了。我该如何解决？
答案1
如果它继续抛出错误，那么你应该能够；
sudo dpkg --force-all -P mariadb-server
这应该可以强制将其移除。返回您的结果。