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I am about to setup a couple of LAMP servers using Ubuntu 10.04. The problem is that I have noticed that Dovecot needs the MySQL-common package to work. I don't want to install that package since I am going to use the MySQL 5.5 binaries...so I don't know if I should install all the packages of MySQL 5.1 using apt-get or just leave MySQL-common 5.1 and use the 5.5 version for the applications.

What would you do?. To use MySQL 5.1? or MySQL 5.5 and the 5.1 MySQL common?.

EEAA
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Use whichever version is latest on your distribution of choice. I'd suggest you use Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, and the current version of that is.. MySQL 5.1.41-3ubuntu12.7

That means that you'll get easy to install binaries sudo apt-get install mysql-server , and support for them from the ubuntu community, because things will happen as expected.

Mixing and matching mysql-server and mysql-client versions is likely to fail in surprising and unexpected ways. Especially at 5pm on a Friday. Don't Do It.

If dovecot requires MySQL, why not let apt's package manager handle those dependencies for you too.

Tom O'Connor
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  • Thanks, It's what I needed to read :D. But why the ubuntu version is so old?, it was lunched on January 2010! – Curri Apr 18 '11 at 23:48