Keith Edmunds wrote:
Having some problems installing MySQL 5 from backports.
Just in case others have similar problems, I fixed them by adding this to /etc/apt/preferences (I didn't have mysql-common in there before, nor was I expecting to need it there):
================================ Package: mysql-dfsg-5.0 Pin: release a=sarge-backports Pin-Priority: 999 Package: mysql-common Pin: release a=sarge-backports Pin-Priority: 999 ================================ Keith