cannot install mysql-server 5.0 on Ubuntu 9.10

[Dick van Soest]

Binary package hint: mysql-server-5.0

cannot install mysql-server 5.0 on Ubuntu 9.10

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Nov 1 13:32:17 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage: subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Package: mysql-server-5.0 (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: mysql-dfsg-5.0
Title: package mysql-server-5.0 (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Hi,

I was wondering if you were still having this problem?

Regards
chuck

[Mathias Gug (mathiaz)]

According to the dpkg log file:

Unpacking mysql-server-5.0 (from .../mysql-server-5.0_5.1.30really5.0.83-0ubuntu3_i386.deb) ...
Aborting downgrade from (at least) 5.1 to 5.0.

It seems that you had mysql 5.1 already installed. If so downgrading to 5.0 is not possible.

[Dick van Soest (dick-van-soest)]

In that case I'm... not happy. Could I have known this? Shouldn't the downgrade be failsafe, I mean warn me that the downgrade would not be possible and refuse to carry it out?

[Mathias Gug (mathiaz)]

On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 07:02:08PM -0000, Dick van Soest wrote:
> Shouldn't the
> downgrade be failsafe, I mean warn me that the downgrade would not be
> possible and refuse to carry it out?
>

This is exactly what the pre-installation script just did:

Aborting downgrade from (at least) 5.1 to 5.0.

[Dick van Soest (dick-van-soest)]

Aparently the software behaved as it should, so I set the bug status to "invalid"