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10 years, 9 months ago Holger K
Re: Installing MariaDB .deb Files -> (Multi-Arch: no) is not co-installable with libmysqlclient18

@rulatir and @m1d1: On 64-bit Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy, when upgrading from MySQL 5.5.34 to MariaDB 5.5.34 using the standard GUI Ubuntu Software Updater on a desktop machine, I also encountered "libmysqlclient18:amd64 5.5.34+maria-1~saucy (Multi-Arch: no) is not co-installable with libmysqlclient18 which has multiple installed instances ".

The automated install left me with this and refused to complete:

$ dpkg -l libmaria* libmysqlclient*

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-==================================-======================-======================-=============================== iU libmariadbclient18 5.5.34+maria-1saucy amd64 MariaDB database client library ii libmysqlclient18:amd64 5.5.34-0ubuntu0.13.10. amd64 MySQL database client library rc libmysqlclient18:i386 5.5.34-0ubuntu0.13.10. i386 MySQL database client library

The problem is that libmysqlclient18:i386 was not fully removed by the automated install. Rather than "messing" with /var/lib/dpkg/status, my solution was:

  • fully remove libmariadbclient18 (because it depends on libmysqlclient18), i.e. apt-get --purge remove libmariadbclient18
  • fully remove libmysqlclient18:i386, i.e. apt-get --purge remove libmysqlclient18:i386
  • proceed with the automated Software Update installation (or install libmariadbclient18 and libmysqlclient18 5.5.34+maria-1saucy from the terminal)

You should now see that the install has completed, like this:

$ dpkg -l libmaria* libmysqlclient*

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-==================================-======================-======================-=========================================== ii libmariadbclient18 5.5.34+maria-1saucy amd64 MariaDB database client library ii libmysqlclient18 5.5.34+maria-1saucy amd64 Virtual package to satisfy external depends

Neither "Holding Packages" nor "Pinning MariaDB" was required. (I hope this saves someone a few hours debugging this issue.)

 
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