Package: mysql-server Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
Error installing mysql-server on Debian 9 Stretch (dependency problems). Using Debian 9.5, fresh install. I want to install mysql-server, but I run into dependency problems. The following packages have unmet dependencies: mysql-server : Depends: default-mysql-server but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. apt-get install mysql-server default-mysql-server Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: default-mysql-server : Depends: mariadb-server-10.1 but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. sudo apt-get install mysql-server default-mysql-server mariadb-server-10.1 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: mariadb-server-10.1 : Depends: libdbi-perl but it is not going to be installed Recommends: libhtml-template-perl but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. sudo apt-get install mysql-server default-mysql-server mariadb-server-10.1 libhtml-template-perl Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libhtml-template-perl : Depends: libcgi-pm-perl but it is not going to be installed or perl (< 5.19) but 5.26.2-7 is to be installed mariadb-server-10.1 : Depends: libdbi-perl but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. sudo apt-get install mysql-server default-mysql-server mariadb-server-10.1 libdbi-perl Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libdbi-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.24.1 E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. apt-cache policy Package files: 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status release a=now 500 http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates/contrib amd64 Packages release v=9,o=Debian,a=stable,n=stretch,l=Debian-Security,c=contrib,b=amd64 origin security.debian.org 500 http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates/main amd64 Packages release v=9,o=Debian,a=stable,n=stretch,l=Debian-Security,c=main,b=amd64 origin security.debian.org 500 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-updates/main amd64 Packages release o=Debian,a=stable-updates,n=stretch-updates,l=Debian,c=main,b=amd64 origin deb.debian.org 500 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages release v=9.5,o=Debian,a=stable,n=stretch,l=Debian,c=main,b=amd64 origin deb.debian.org Pinned packages: apt policy perl perl-base perl: Installed: 5.26.2-7 Candidate: 5.26.2-7 Version table: *** 5.26.2-7 100 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 5.24.1-3+deb9u4 500 500 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages 500 http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates/main amd64 Packages perl-base: Installed: 5.26.2-7 Candidate: 5.26.2-7 Version table: *** 5.26.2-7 100 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 5.24.1-3+deb9u4 500 500 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages 500 http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates/main amd64 Packages -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.5 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)