I tried setting this up a while back and it returned an error, saying it would leave the package unconfigured. I was a complete newb then and figured "ok, at least all the data's there right?".. Now I'm trying to install ISPConfig so I can manage Ilohamail, and it tells me mysql isn't installed. So I marked all of my mysql packages for reinstallation, reinstall, even reboot, and it gives me the same error. So I uninstalled them all, and reinstalled them, this is the error I'm given...

I installed the empty shell version which picks the best version of MySQL for me, so I understand that part, what I don't understand is what is impeding the configuration of mysql-server-5.0.

Any ideas?

TIA,
-SS

Here's a terminal readout, hope it helps:

bump
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with a debian based distribution i would simply type
sudo apt-cache search mysql
then take a look at the output and copy the modules to the next line:

sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client mysql-common libmysqlclient15-dev

i did not encounter dependency problems this way yet...

cheers, j

Merged identical threads.

I did exactly what you said and I got this:

(log is huge so I selected the last half)
I have proftpd and gproftpd installed, any clue in that?
Since I have those installed I would really rather not have to reinstall ubuntu.
Is there a way I can purge mysql more thoroughly than aptitude is capable of? I come from windows and when something goes wrong I uninstall, comb the registry, and reinstall... any parallel process in ubuntu?

Thanks,
-SS

I tried to install it (thus configure it) from the recovery mode, and I noticed it said:

Ok so /var/run/mysqld isn't there... if I downloaded and redownloaded all these packages and in theory they were installed, why am I missing a directory? What do I need to DL that will add that directory? Considering this is trying to run the package I *just* installed, in recovery mode so all resources should be lockable, what gives?

EDIT:
I just rebooted into normal mode, var/run/mysqld does exist, but is entirely empty... do I need to install mysql as root account instead of Sudo?

maybe run

su

(if you havnt set a root password yet:
sudo passwd root
)
then

apt-get remove mysql-server

then

apt-get install mysql-server

or
get yourself binaries from mysql.com, install the way they describe...
should work easily
cheers. j

Alright I tried the su method before, as well as doing from the root account.

I went to their site and the site is very busy, all I'm seeing are solutions that it looks like you have to pay for it.

I'm not planning on using mysql, just installing it so other programs will work, and as such I know very little about it, could someone give me a url to the binary?

Thanks,
-SS

I found the answer through experimentation.
If someone else goes through this lets hope they find this thread:

The problem was my /etc/network/interfaces did not have the loopback stanza
Everything above the primary network interface disappeared somehow and mysql is dependent on it to install.

Hope this helps someone!
-SS

cool, good to know anyway
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/ -> communtiy server is for free

I had the same problem after installing a brandnew Ubuntu Heron 8.04, getting always the message
After trying to fix it for some hours I gladly found this thread - and your solution helped.
In my interfaces file the two lines you mentioned had been commented out. I deleted the '#' for both lines, did a complete purge:
and after this a reinstall
Now everything went smoothly without errors.
Thank you very much!

Hey that's why I'm so verbose in my last posts, glad this newbie could help ya!