Ubuntu
mysql-5.7 package

libmysqlclient-dev prevents npm/nodejs

Bug #1873608 reported by Jens Elkner on 2020-04-18

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1794589: libssl1.0-dev conflicts libssl-dev. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	mysql-5.7 (Ubuntu)	Incomplete	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

If one needs to install libmysqlclient-dev (e.g. because python3-mysqldb is too old/unusable), npm/nodejs get uninstalled, which breaks react applications running on the server. If one in turn installs npm, libmysqlclient-dev gets removed. That's a major bug/inconsistency within an LTS release (bionic - 18.04.4).

Jens Elkner (jelmd) on 2020-04-18

affects:

horizon → mysql-5.7 (Ubuntu)

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote on 2020-11-18:

Hi Jens,

It sounds like there is a Conflicts or Breaks between nodejs and libmysqlclient-dev, but looking at each of their control files I don't see anything listed explicitly.

Could you cut and paste the output you see when installing each of these? Also please attach your /var/log/apt/history.log and /var/log/apt/term.log.

Changed in mysql-5.7 (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete

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Robie Basak (racb) wrote on 2020-11-20:

This is the same as bug 1794589. Details in that bug and in bug 1779863. In short, due to the way Node works (or did work in the version released with Bionic), and because that particular version of Node is broken unless it is built with what was at the time an old version of OpenSSL, it isn't possible for this to work.