[debian-mysql] Bug#909446: Error installing mysql-server on Debian 9 Stretch (dependency problems)

[Konrád Lőrinczi]

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)
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