It seems that you already have (parts of) mariadb 5.3 installed. Look at the output of 'dpkg -l | grep maria' and then apt-get remove all of those. Then try again.
Good luck! Walter On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 04:26, planas <jsloz...@gmail.com> wrote: > ** > Hi > > I have been struggling to get mariadb to work. My problems have been either > the server is very erratic, usually will not start it. After trying a > complete reinstall I can not install the mariadb-server-5.2 package either > from the repository or from a deb. I am using Ubuntu/Pinguy 11.04. > > The installation results from apt-get or aptitude are > > sudo aptitude install mariadb-server-5.2 > The following NEW packages will be installed: > mariadb-server-5.2 > 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 21 not upgraded. > Need to get 13.6 MB of archives. After unpacking 30.8 MB will be used. > Get:1 http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/mariadb/repo/5.2/ubuntu/ natty/main > mariadb-server-5.2 amd64 5.2.7-mariadb101~natty [13.6 MB] > Fetched 13.6 MB in 4s (2,733 kB/s) > Preconfiguring packages ... > (Reading database ... 427308 files and directories currently installed.) > Unpacking mariadb-server-5.2 (from > .../mariadb-server-5.2_5.2.7-mariadb101~natty_amd64.deb) ... > Aborting downgrade from (at least) 5.3 to 5.2. > If are sure you want to downgrade to 5.2, remove the file > /var/lib/mysql/debian-*.flag and try installing again. > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/mariadb-server-5.2_5.2.7-mariadb101~natty_amd64.deb > (--unpack): > subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/mariadb-server-5.2_5.2.7-mariadb101~natty_amd64.deb > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > A package failed to install. Trying to recover: > > I tried MySQL 5.1.7 from the Ubuntu repository and got the same results. > > Searching various forums/online information has not turned up an answer > including MySQL and Ubuntu. > > -- > Jay Lozier > jsloz...@gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss > Post to : maria-discuss@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > -- Walter Heck -- follow @walterheck on twitter to see what I'm up to! -- Check out my new startup: Server Monitoring as a Service @ http://tribily.com Follow @tribily on Twitter and/or 'Like' our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/tribily
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