"larry owens" writes: > Colleagues > [...] > Unfortunately I > have been unable to find a set of instructions to safely remove > Maria. Can anyone point me to a working process (the one's on the web > currently don't seem to work). TIA Hi, as long as you installed it from Debian packages, you only have to purge (as opposed to only remove) its packages and then reinstall. Populating the new database is the real work, in my opinion. -- Alberto