Installing specific mysql version from deb

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1

I’m trying to install mysql 5.6.28 (not 5.6.14, so Error installing MySQL 5.6 doesn’t help me). This is on a LAMP stack. I give up on apt-get install (which may have been incorrect) and started attempting to install .deb files.

Unfortunately, When I uninstall mysql and then attempt to install the deb, I get this error:
A data directory ‘/var/lib/mysql’ is present on this system when no MySQL server package is currently installed on the system.

the build was canceled`

Changing to to headless just means that the script bails.

This error seems to persist regardless of if I remove the data directory or not.

dependencies: cache_directories: - mysql-2.6.28 # relative to the build directory pre: - if [[ ! -e mysql-2.6.28/mysql-common_5.6.28-1ubuntu12.04_amd64.deb ]]; then mkdir mysql-2.6.28; cd mysql-2.6.28; wget -O mysql-5.6.deb.tar http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-5.6/mysql-server_5.6.28-1ubuntu12.04_amd64.deb-bundle.tar && tar -xf mysql-5.6.deb.tar && cd ..; fi - sudo apt-get remove --purge mysql-server mysql-client mysql-common - sudo apt-get purge mysql-server-core-5.5 - sudo apt-get purge mysql-client-core-5.5 - rm -rf /var/lib/mysql - sudo dpkg -i mysql-2.6.28/*.deb - pecl install -f memcached-2.0.1

2

I assume that /var/lib/mysql is not owned by the default user, so you will probably need sudo to remove it completely. Sounds silly, but still—could you please try that out? Thanks.

3

This is what ended up working:

`#!/bin/bash
pwd
set -x
set -e

export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive

curl -LO https://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql-apt-config_0.5.3-1_all.deb
echo mysql-apt-config mysql-apt-config/select-product select Apply | sudo debconf-set-selections
echo mysql-apt-config mysql-apt-config/select-server select mysql-5.6 | sudo debconf-set-selections
echo mysql-apt-config mysql-apt-config/select-connector-python select none | sudo debconf-set-selections
echo mysql-apt-config mysql-apt-config/select-workbench select none | sudo debconf-set-selections
echo mysql-apt-config mysql-apt-config/select-utilities select none | sudo debconf-set-selections
echo mysql-apt-config mysql-apt-config/select-connector-odbc select connector-odbc-x.x | sudo debconf-set-selections
sudo -E dpkg -i mysql-apt-config_0.5.3-1_all.deb
sudo apt-get update
echo mysql-community-server mysql-community-server/re-root-pass password {mysql_root_password} | sudo debconf-set-selections echo mysql-community-server mysql-community-server/root-pass password {mysql_root_password} | sudo debconf-set-selections
sudo -E apt-get -y install mysql-community-server

echo "Checking installed version…"
mysql -D mysql -e "SELECT version()"
echo "Done!!"
pwd`