Hm, actually on second thought, installing from software center installs the "Mythtv" package which Should have pulled in a MySQL server via pre- depends.
$ apt-cache depends mythtv mythtv Depends: mythtv-database Depends: mythtv-frontend Depends: mythtv-backend |Depends: ntp |Depends: <time-daemon> chrony openntpd Depends: <ntp-simple> PreDepends: mysql-server mysql-server-5.0 mysql-server-5.1 Suggests: mythtv-doc Recommends: mythtv-themes --- Can you please run these two commands and provide us the output: dpkg -l | grep mysql dpkg -l | grep mythtv -- package mythtv-database 0.22.0+fixes22594-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script would not go forward - forced to cancel https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/501066 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs