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Status: Closed
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Resolution: Not a Bug
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Two users reported this problem.
We do not see it in our automatic install/upgrade test, so it may be specific to a particular set of installed packages, or maybe the VMs in the Buildbot need to be upgraded to latest version of squeeze to see it.
I will try to reproduce manually.
The problem is not that package mariadb-common is missing (it is provided by the mysql-common package), but that apt-get does not automatically select the right dependency resolution. Another user reported that a workaround was to use aptitude to install, deny the first solution it proposes, and accept the second solution:
$ sudo aptitude install mariadb-server-5.2 mysql-common
...
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
Keep the following packages at their current version:
1) libmariadbclient16 [Not Installed]
2) mariadb-client-5.2 [Not Installed]
3) mariadb-client-core-5.2 [Not Installed]
4) mariadb-server-5.2 [Not Installed]
5) mariadb-server-core-5.2 [Not Installed]
Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] n
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
Install the following packages:
1) libmysqlclient16 [5.2.5-mariadb99~squeeze (<NULL>)]
Upgrade the following packages:
2) mysql-common [5.1.49-3 (now, stable) -> 5.2.5-mariadb99~squeeze (<NULL>)]
Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] y
Here is a description of the problem from Oliver Schneider:
I have tried to install MariaDB (tried both 5.1 and
5.2) on a Debian 6.0 system, following closely the steps described here:
http://kb.askmonty.org/v/installing-mariadb-deb-files
However, for both cases apt will complain about a missing package
mariadb-common and indeed there is no such package in either one of the
package repositories.
Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong? There is a package called
mysql-common_5.1.55-mariadb98~squeeze_all.deb for 5.1 and
mysql-common_5.2.5-mariadb99~squeeze_all.deb for 5.2 in the
repositories, but apparently the other .deb references a mariadb-common ...
Thanks in advance,
// Oliver
PS: Exact messages:
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$ apt-get install mariadb-server-5.2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
mariadb-server-5.2 : Depends: mariadb-client-5.2 (>=
5.2.5-mariadb99~squeeze) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libmariadbclient16 (>= 5.1.21-1) but it
is not going to be installed
Depends: mariadb-server-core-5.2 (>=
5.2.5-mariadb99~squeeze) but it is not going to be installed
PreDepends: mariadb-common
E: Broken packages
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$ apt-get install mariadb-server-5.1
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
mariadb-server-5.1 : Depends: mariadb-client-5.1 (>=
5.1.55-mariadb98~squeeze) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libmariadbclient16 (>= 5.1.21-1) but it
is not going to be installed
Depends: mariadb-server-core-5.1 (>=
5.1.55-mariadb98~squeeze) but it is not going to be installed
PreDepends: mariadb-common
E: Broken packages
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Re: apt-get install mariadb-server-5.2 fails on Debian squeeze
After these attempts, the ubuntu update manager suggested to
install "MariaDB database client library", when I tried, I got a
system error message "The package system is broken", with
the following details:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libmysqlclient16: Depends: libmariadbclient16 (= 5.3.0-mariadb101~natty) but it is not installed
mariadb-client-5.3: Depends: mariadb-common but it is a virtual package
Depends: libmariadbclient16 (>= 5.3.0-mariadb101~natty) but it is not installed
Depends: mariadb-client-core-5.3 (>= 5.3.0-mariadb101~natty) but 5.3.0-mariadb101~natty is installed
Depends: zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4) but 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3ubuntu3 is installed
mariadb-client-core-5.3: Depends: mariadb-common but it is a virtual package
Depends: libmariadbclient16 (>= 5.3.0-mariadb101~natty) but it is not installed
Depends: libncurses5 (>= 5.5-5~) but 5.7+20101128-1 is installed
Depends: libreadline6 (>= 6.0) but 6.2-0ubuntu1 is installed
Depends: zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4) but 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3ubuntu3 is installed
mariadb-server-core-5.3: Depends: libwrap0 (>= 7.6-4~) but 7.6.q-19ubuntu1 is installed
Depends: zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.0) but 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3ubuntu3 is installed
Depends: libmariadbclient16 (>= 5.3.0-mariadb101~natty) but it is not installed
Re: apt-get install mariadb-server-5.2 fails on Debian squeeze
After the above errors, I accepted the suggestion of apt to run:
apt-get -f install
This command seemed to fix the problem. After this command I ran:
apt-get install mysql-client mysql-server
which installed some more packages.
Now I could start mariadb via
sudo /etc/init.d/mysql start.
Re: apt-get install mariadb-server-5.2 fails on Debian squeeze
Timour: Your problem is not related to this bug. See instead lp:815198
Re: apt-get install mariadb-server-5.2 fails on Debian squeeze
I had the same, but fixed it:
~# apt-get install mariadb-server-5.2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
mariadb-server-5.2 : Depends: mariadb-client-5.2 (>= 5.2.10-mariadb107~squeeze) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libmariadbclient16 (>= 5.1.21-1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: mariadb-server-core-5.2 (>= 5.2.10-mariadb107~squeeze) but it is not going to be installed
PreDepends: mariadb-common
E: Broken packages
The problem is with mariadb-common:
root@testzarafa3:~# apt-get install mariadb-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package mariadb-common is a virtual package provided by:
mysql-common 5.2.10-mariadb107~squeeze [Not candidate version]
To fix it:
root@testzarafa3:~# apt-get remove mysql-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libmysqlclient12 libmysqlclient14 libmysqlclient15-dev libmysqlclient15off mysql-common
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 5 to remove and 190 not upgraded.
After this operation, 28.2 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 178116 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing libmysqlclient12 ...
Removing libmysqlclient14 ...
Removing libmysqlclient15-dev ...
Removing libmysqlclient15off ...
Removing mysql-common ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
and then it works:
~# apt-get install mariadb-server-5.2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libdbd-mysql-perl libmariadbclient16 libmysqlclient16 mariadb-client-5.2 mariadb-client-core-5.2 mariadb-server-core-5.2 mysql-common
Suggested packages:
tinyca mariadb-test
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libdbd-mysql-perl libmariadbclient16 libmysqlclient16 mariadb-client-5.2 mariadb-client-core-5.2 mariadb-server-5.2 mariadb-server-core-5.2 mysql-common
0 upgraded, 8 newly installed, 0 to remove and 190 not upgraded.
Need to get 21.3 MB of archives.
After this operation, 47.8 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Launchpad bug id: 730557
Folks, here are the two files with the package status before installation of mariadb (dpkg.status.1) and after successful installation (dpkg.status.0).
Note that the state prior to successful installation only references mysql in suggestions to installed packages.
The only thing that is special about the system in question is that it was upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze. Otherwise it's pretty much vanilla.
I'm trying to reproduce it in a VM. If I manage to gather more info I'll post it here.
dpkg.status.tgz
LPexportBug730557_dpkg.status.tgz