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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Ok, so here’s what I did to solve it.
First, I typed:
Then, I proceeded to use apt update and then I was able to update
Hi @s0ulf3re,
Try forcing the MySQL upgrade with the following:
Before that do a backup of your databases:
Lastly if the above doesn’t help, you can always reinstall the MySQL and import all the databases inside again.