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absk
July 27th, 2009, 05:40 AM
I have just moved from Windows and am unable to install MySQL

I installed lamp using apt-get but it could not install completely. I read somewhere that I should run

sudo apt-get -f install
Now i am getting this, same as before:


Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libfreebob0 libwildmidi0 libsoundtouch1c2 libjack0 libopenspc0 libcdaudio1
libmpcdec3 libmms0 libiptcdata0 libfaad0
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 298 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up mysql-server-5.0 (5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.4) ...
* Stopping MySQL database server mysqld [ OK ]
Reloading AppArmor profiles : done.
* Starting MySQL database server mysqld [fail]
invoke-rc.d: initscript mysql, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing mysql-server-5.0 (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mysql-server:
mysql-server depends on mysql-server-5.0; however:
Package mysql-server-5.0 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing mysql-server (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
mysql-server-5.0
mysql-server
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I have no idea what to do.