Ethan, I see that you are using Thunderbird. A lot of people do. But why are your messages always broken? You never reply to the message you are quoting and seem to be replying to but the message before it. Strange. And your quoting is really painful. I am sure it is not a problem with Thunderbird since other people use it successfully. Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: > env COLUMNS=80 dpkg -l | grep mysql-server I had asked for the 'env COLUMNS=80 dpkg -l' so that the columns would not go out too far and would not be hard to read. > iU mysql-server 5.5.31+dfsg-0+wheezy1 all MySQL database server (metapackage depending on the latest version) > rc mysql-server-5.1 5.1.66-0+squeeze1 i386 MySQL database server binaries and system database setup > iF mysql-server-5.5 5.5.31+dfsg-0+wheezy1 i386 MySQL database server binaries and system database setup > ii mysql-server-core-5.5 5.5.31+dfsg-0+wheezy1 i386 MySQL database server binaries But yours go out to column 144 so of course I know you didn't use the command I asked you to use. Sigh. And the above clearly shows the problem. I will chop it down. Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ iU mysql-server 5.5.31+dfsg-0+wheezy1 rc mysql-server-5.1 5.1.66-0+squeeze1 iF mysql-server-5.5 5.5.31+dfsg-0+wheezy1 ii mysql-server-core-5.5 5.5.31+dfsg-0+wheezy1 mysql-server is Unpacked but not configured. mysql-server-5.5 install is marked as Failed. That is clearly bad. You can't ignore these errors. I would try this first. Needs root. apt-get install -f That should rerun the configuration of the failed packages. Since it produced errors before it will probably produce errors again. Post those errors. They need to be fixed. After you get the new mysql server installed correctly then, and only then, purge the previous server. Doing so will have the side effect of shutting down the server so it needs to be started again. But don't do it until you have the new server installed correctly. dpkg --purge mysql-server-5.1 service mysql start Bob
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