I'm no longer able to reproduce this bug on the latest karmic version,
closing.
** Changed in: mysql-dfsg-5.0 (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed = Fix Released
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package mysql-server-5.0 5.1.30 hangs during installation
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/369351
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I had exactly this problem butting running on 9.04-i386 (inside a
VirtualBox Virtual machine on MacOSX). Tried to install mysql-5.0 and
apache-2 via synaptic and it hung here:
Setting up mysql-client-5.0 (5.1.30really5.0.75-0ubuntu10) ...
Setting up mysql-server-core-5.0
