lucid: Can't install percona-server-server-5.5 with php5-mysql

[Sean Bright]

When trying to install percona-server-server on a fresh install of lucid, the following occurs:

# apt-get install percona-server-server
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libaio1 libdbi-perl libmysqlclient18 libnet-daemon-perl libplrpc-perl percona-server-client-5.5 percona-server-common-5.5
  percona-server-server-5.5
Suggested packages:
  dbishell tinyca
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libmysqlclient16 mysql-common php5-mysql
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libaio1 libdbi-perl libmysqlclient18 libnet-daemon-perl libplrpc-perl percona-server-client-5.5 percona-server-common-5.5
  percona-server-server percona-server-server-5.5
0 upgraded, 9 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 31.9MB of archives.
After this operation, 107MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

Obviously I don't want to remove php5-mysql.

[Alexey Kopytov (akopytov)]

I wonder if percona-server-server really has to depend on percona-server-client (and thus, obsolete libmysqclient16 with libmysqlclient18)?

[Sean Bright (sbright)]

I'm happy to test potential fixes, just let me know what to do.

[Ignacio Nin (ignacio-nin)]

@Alexey, it needs to depend because some of the install scripts as well as the init.d depend on the client to work.

This seems to be another issue caused by bug lp:1174271, I'll confirm the fix for that bug (5.1 version) works and mark this as a duplicate of it.

Thanks for your report!

[Ignacio Nin (ignacio-nin)]

Confirmed to be the 5.1 version (because of libmysqlclient16) of lp:1174271, marking as duplicate.

[Sean Bright (sbright)]

Confirmed that the fix for lp:1174271 resolved this issue for me.