Synaptic failure

[T J Tulley]

[Using LinuxMint-9 with Windows-7 on a laptop with Pentium dual-core 2.2 GHz cpu, 4 GB RAM, 500GB hdd]

I have selected mysql-cluster-client and mysql-cluster-server for re-installtion and repeatedly get the response:
"E: /var/cache/apt/archives/mysql-cluster-client-5.1_7.0.9-1ubuntu7_amd64.deb: trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/mysql', which is also in package mysql-client-core-5.1 0
E: /var/cache/apt/archives/mysql-cluster-server-5.1_7.0.9-1ubuntu7_amd64.deb: trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/my_print_defaults', which is also in package mysql-server-core-5.1 0" in spite of having removed the offending files from /usr/bin, expecting them to be replaced during the re-installation.

I also tried to completely remove mysql-client-core-5.1 and got the same error. This is the default database installed with the "empty" packages first mentioned.

How can I overcome this, please?

Yours hopefully, -

Theo Tulley.

[vincent]

Try out the following terminal commands:

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sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get autoremove

[ramkumaran.t]

Please try the following.

1. dpkg --list

2. delete whichever package starts with mysql like given below
ii mysql-client 5.1.62-2 MySQL - Client
ii mysql-common 5.1.61-0ubuntu0.11.10.1 MySQL database common files, e.g. /etc/mysql/my.cnf
ii mysql-devel 5.5.22-2 MySQL - Development header files and libraries
ii mysql-embedded 5.5.22-2 MySQL - Embedded library
ii mysql-server-core-5.1 5.1.61-0ubuntu0.11.10.1 MySQL database server binaries
ii mysql-shared 5.5.22-2 MySQL - Shared libraries
ii mysql-test 5.5.22-2 MySQL - Test suite

3. Issue the following commands
dpkg -r mysql-client
dpkg -r mysql-common
dpkg -r mysql-devel
dpkg -r mysql-embedded
dpkg -r mysql-server-core-5.1
dpkg -r mysql-shared
dpkg -r mysql-test
dpkg -r mysql-workbench-gpl

4. apt-get -f install

5. apt-get autoremove

[AlbertP]

You're posting it here in Mint tools, but Synaptic is not part of the Mint tools. No problem, moderators will be able to move the topic.

[Oscar799]

Moved here by moderator