package manager broken

[Paul Tremblay]

On 05/30/13 14:17, Tom H wrote:
> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Paul Tremblay <ptrembl at amazon.com> wrote:
> So we went off on a tangent with the locale error...
>
> apt-cache show mysql-server-5.5
>
> apt-cache policy mysql-server-5.5
>
> Do you still get this error if you install the "74 not upgraded"?
>
> Is your dpkg/apt database up-to-date?
>
> ls /var/cache/apt/archives/*mysql*
>


 >>ls /var/cache/apt/archives/*mysql*

/var/cache/apt/archives/mysql-server_5.5.31-0ubuntu0.12.04.1_all.deb

The output from the first two commands are below. I'm not sure how to 
read them.

============output==================

Package: mysql-server-5.5
Priority: optional
Section: database
Installed-Size: 31950
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: Debian MySQL Maintainers 
<pkg-mysql-maint at lists.alioth.debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Source: mysql-5.5
Version: 5.5.31-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
Replaces: libmysqlclient-dev (<< 5.5.17~), mysql-server (<< 
5.5.31-0ubuntu0.12.04.1), mysql-server-4.1, mysql-server-5.0, 
mysql-server-5.1
Provides: virtual-mysql-server
Depends: mysql-client-5.5 (>= 5.5.31-0ubuntu0.12.04.1), libdbi-perl, 
perl (>= 5.6), libc6 (>= 2.14), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), zlib1g (>= 
1:1.1.4), debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, upstart-job, psmisc, passwd, 
lsb-base (>= 3.0-10), mysql-server-core-5.5 (= 5.5.31-0ubuntu0.12.04.1), 
upstart (>= 0.6.7-2)
Pre-Depends: mysql-common (>= 5.5.31-0ubuntu0.12.04.1), adduser (>= 
3.40), debconf
Recommends: libhtml-template-perl
Suggests: tinyca, mailx
Breaks: libmysqlclient-dev (<< 5.5.17~), mysql-server (<< 
5.5.31-0ubuntu0.12.04.1), mysql-server-4.1, mysql-server-5.1
Filename: 
pool/main/m/mysql-5.5/mysql-server-5.5_5.5.31-0ubuntu0.12.04.1_amd64.deb
Size: 8877312
MD5sum: 1e7b1a7968999be712ba2774a520c6a4
SHA1: 1ffba69e4afc09ada3acaf402e53058c5384baa5
SHA256: 24c2c71ea610be30da531f3d23f6deb077d832f4caa74a36e62beff9644622fc
Description: MySQL database server binaries and system database setup
Homepage: http://dev.mysql.com/
Description-md5: 3ae11e16f793b3ee84f73a5fa268ad9b
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 5y
Task: lamp-server, mythbuntu-frontend, mythbuntu-desktop, 
mythbuntu-backend-slave, mythbuntu-backend-master, mythbuntu-backend-master

Package: mysql-server-5.5
Priority: optional
Section: database
Installed-Size: 31872
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: Debian MySQL Maintainers 
<pkg-mysql-maint at lists.alioth.debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Source: mysql-5.5
Version: 5.5.22-0ubuntu1
Replaces: libmysqlclient-dev (<< 5.5.17~), mysql-server (<< 
5.5.22-0ubuntu1), mysql-server-4.1, mysql-server-5.0, mysql-server-5.1
Provides: virtual-mysql-server
Depends: mysql-client-5.5 (>= 5.5.22-0ubuntu1), libdbi-perl, perl (>= 
5.6), libc6 (>= 2.14), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), 
debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, upstart-job, psmisc, passwd, lsb-base 
(>= 3.0-10), mysql-server-core-5.5 (= 5.5.22-0ubuntu1), upstart (>= 0.6.7-2)
Pre-Depends: mysql-common (>= 5.5.22-0ubuntu1), adduser (>= 3.40), debconf
Recommends: libhtml-template-perl
Suggests: tinyca, mailx
Breaks: libmysqlclient-dev (<< 5.5.17~), mysql-server (<< 
5.5.22-0ubuntu1), mysql-server-4.1, mysql-server-5.1
Filename: pool/main/m/mysql-5.5/mysql-server-5.5_5.5.22-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 8816482
MD5sum: d292efc961786f59eb210be659fba6a3
SHA1: 2e73dacd86c3f3a83c3903eeeb6269b13aaa3fd4
SHA256: 40f78431e2251af95ebdbca3db019d81f2cfd108d1ca2e6f8ace89fda9e3be21
Description: MySQL database server binaries and system database setup
Homepage: http://dev.mysql.com/
Description-md5: 3ae11e16f793b3ee84f73a5fa268ad9b
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 5y
Task: lamp-server, mythbuntu-frontend, mythbuntu-desktop, 
mythbuntu-backend-slave, mythbuntu-backend-master, mythbuntu-backend-master

mysql-server-5.5:
   Installed: 5.5.31-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
   Candidate: 5.5.31-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
   Version table:
  *** 5.5.31-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 0
         500 http://10.43.24.48/ubuntu/desktop/ precise-updates/main 
amd64 Packages
         500 http://10.43.24.48/ubuntu/desktop/ precise-security/main 
amd64 Packages
         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
      5.5.22-0ubuntu1 0
         500 http://10.43.24.48/ubuntu/desktop/ precise/main amd64 Packages

-- 
Paul Tremblay
ICQA Program Developer