package mariadb-client-10.0 (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/mysql_embedded', which is also in package mysql-client-core-5.7 5.7.11-0ubuntu5

[Danny Schwitzgebel]

Last night my MySQL server did not work anymore. Had to install a few packages to get it to work, and when those packages installed, MariaDB was also installed. Today I had to restart the server, and then the error message came up

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: mariadb-client-10.0 (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-17.33-generic 4.4.6
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Apr 7 23:24:06 2016
ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/mysql_embedded', which is also in package mysql-client-core-5.7 5.7.11-0ubuntu5
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-03-27 (12 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Beta amd64 (20160326)
RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.18.4ubuntu1
 apt 1.2.10
SourcePackage: mariadb-10.0
Title: package mariadb-client-10.0 (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/mysql_embedded', which is also in package mysql-client-core-5.7 5.7.11-0ubuntu5
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[purencool (purencool)]

Attached is my terminal output

[Otto Kekäläinen (otto)]

Indeed, mysql_embedded is in mariadb-client-10.0 package but in mysql in mysql-client-core-x.x -packages:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?searchon=contents&keywords=mysql_embedded&mode=exactfilename&suite=xenial&arch=any
/usr/bin/mysql_embedded mariadb-client-10.0, mysql-client-core-5.6, mysql-client-core-5.7

Fixed in https://github.com/ottok/mariadb-10.0/commit/b6cad1bd16815d763044b08a54734ed2a014ca49

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package mariadb-10.0 - 10.0.24-7

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mariadb-10.0 (10.0.24-7) unstable; urgency=low

  * Temporarily remove mariadb-plugin-cassandra as Debian FTP bot thinks
    it wasn't there before 10.0.24-6 and put the package in the NEW queue.

 -- Otto Kekäläinen <email address hidden> Wed, 13 Apr 2016 13:24:28 +0300