MariaDB upgrade failed

Written on Monday, September 29, 2014 by Alexander Dumke / Tags: MariaDB, Linux

Maybe, you get the following error message when upgrade:

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 : Depends: mariadb-server-5.5 (= 5.5.39+maria-1~wheezy) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

And so you can solve the problem.

Give in the Shell following line:

apt-cache show mysql-common | grep Version

The following output should appear

Version: 5.6.19-1~dotdeb.1
Version: 5.5.39+maria-1~wheezy
Version: 5.5.38-0+wheezy1
Version: 5.5.37-0+wheezy1

Next, you give the shell the following line:

apt-cache show libmysqlclient18 | grep Version

Again, you should get identical output

Version: 5.6.19-1~dotdeb.1
Version: 5.5.39+maria-1~wheezy
Version: 5.5.38-0+wheezy1
Version: 5.5.37-0+wheezy1

The points marked green should be consistent with that in the introduction. If so give a your following command in the Shell:

apt-get install mariadb-server-5.5 mariadb-client-5.5 libmysqlclient18=5.5.39+maria-1~wheezy mysql-common=5.5.39+maria-1~wheezy

Now the question should come if you want to install the packages.

Installing MariaDB .deb Files External Link

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