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MySQL client and server has broken dependencies when trying to upgrade through the package manager in the Wordpress 1 click droplet

I was trying to do some maintenance on my new droplet, but every time I try to upgrade mysql, I get this error from APT:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 mysql-client : Depends: mysql-client-8.0 but it is not going to be installed
 mysql-community-server : Depends: mysql-client (= 8.0.26-1ubuntu20.04) but 8.0.28-0ubuntu0.20.04.3 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

How can I upgrade these? --fix-broken-install isn’t working either

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S0ulf3re • April 26, 2022

Ok, so here’s what I did to solve it.

First, I typed:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 467B942D3A79BD29

Then, I proceeded to use apt update and then I was able to update

KFSys
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• April 26, 2022

Hi @s0ulf3re,

Try forcing the MySQL upgrade with the following:

  1. sudo apt install -f mysql-client=8.0.26-1ubuntu20.04

Before that do a backup of your databases:

  1. mysqldump --user root --password --all-databases > all-databases.sql

Lastly if the above doesn’t help, you can always reinstall the MySQL and import all the databases inside again.