Error while updating percona-server-server-5.1 to percona-server-server-5.5

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When updating packages percona-server-server-5.1 to percona-server-server-5.5 and percona-server-client-5.1 to percona-server-client-5.5 got an error: " E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) ". Package "percona-server-server-5.1" can not be delete.

Trouble can be because of version libmysqlclient16 (with percona 5.1) and libmysqlclient18 (with 5.5).

Common solution:

delete all packages refers to percona(mysql) like libmysqlclient16 php5-mysql and perconas packages, than install it all:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get remove libmysqlclient16 libmysqlclient-dev
sudo apt-get purge percona-server-client percona-server-server percona-server-common
sudo apt-get install percona-server-server percona-server-client
ln -s /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.18 /usr/lib/libmysqlclient_r.so.16
rm /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so
ln -s /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.18 /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so
apt-get install php5-mysql phpmyadmin

Solution in Russian: http://tokarchuk.ru/2011/04/percona-server-5-1-to-5-5-upgrad/

[Ignacio Nin (ignacio-nin)]

Tried to reproduce the error in squeeze and lucid, in both architectures, however the upgrade works fine and the 5.1 version gets uninstalled. Probably a bug in an old version that has been fixed in recent ones.

[Shahriyar Rzayev (rzayev-sehriyar)]

Percona now uses JIRA for bug reports so this bug report is migrated to: https://jira.percona.com/browse/PS-1195