running apt-get install snort-mysql

[Triban]

Binary package hint: snort-mysql

Ubuntu Version: 8.04
Snort-mysql verion: 2.7.0-14
Thought it would install MySQL Database and configure for Snort then install Snort but it crashed. It shows updates are still available, will run and reboot and try again.

Running as a Virtual Machine on Server 2008 Hyper-V with AMD64 Platform.

Setting up snort-rules-default (2.7.0-14)

Setting up snort-mysql (2.7.0-14) ...
 * Stopping Network Intrusion Detection System snort * No running snort instance found
 * Starting Network Intrusion Detection System snort * /etc/snort/db-pending-config file found
 * Snort will not start as its database is not yet configured.
 * Please configure the database as described in
 * /usr/share/doc/snort-{pgsql,mysql}/README-database.Debian
 * and remove /etc/snort/db-pending-config
invoke-rc.d: initscript snort, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing snort-mysql (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 6
Processing triggers for libc6 ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Errors were encountered while processing:
 snort-mysql
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Aug 11 20:24:27 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 6
Package: snort-mysql 2.7.0-14
PackageArchitecture: amd64
SourcePackage: snort
Title: package snort-mysql 2.7.0-14 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 6
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-24-generic x86_64