Re: cannot remove mysql-server-5.0

[Tom Brown <brown@esteem.com>]

On Monday 13 November 2006 17:53, Kevin Mark wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:46:26AM -0800, Tom Brown wrote:
> > On Monday 13 November 2006 09:40, Tom Brown wrote:
> > > I installed some mysql 5 packages on my development server. I had to do
> > > a --force-all to get them to install. I've tried three different ways
> > > to remove the package but all fail (shown below). Any ideas on how to
> > > remove the package?
> >
> > Hmmm... I went on #debian with this problem without any promise of fixing
> > the problem. I did --force-all when installing the .debs for mysql
> > 5.0.26. I learned that this was a bad idea. I get the impression that the
> > package db is fubar. Everything I try fails. This is a develpment server
> > so no real damage done. I am looking at reinstalling debian and starting
> > over. So, does anybody have any suggestions before I reinstall?
> >
> > Thanks,
>
> Hi Tom,
> one of the errors in the initscripts was complaining about
> /lib/lsb/init-script. This is in the 'lsb-base' packages. I'd install it
> so that when you try to re-install mysql 5, it does not fails, at least
> with that error. So: install 'lsb-base', then 'mysql', then if that
> works, try to remove 'mysql'.
> Cheers,
> Kev

Hi Kev,

Thanks for your reply. I think the packages db is really fubar. This is what I 
get when I try to install lsb-base:

$ sudo apt-get install lsb-base
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: The package mysql-server-5.0 needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an 
archive for it.

Does this mean there's no hope for my poor dev server? A fresh install 
wouldn't kill me. Although, if there is way out of this I'd like to know in 
case I run into this in the future on one of my production servers.

Thanks,
Tom