I have an ubuntu 18 box where I installed mysql server 8. After upgrading to ubuntu 20.04 it started to complain that there are two packages to be updated: mysql-server and mysql-client.
Each time I do sudo apt upgrade it says that mysql-server and mysql-client packages have been kept back.
I have tried to do sudo apt dist-upgrade but the packages are still kept back.
I finally tried to do sudo mysql install mysql-server mysql-client but I get the most verbose feedback on this issue:
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies: mysql-client : Depends: mysql-client-8.0 but it is not going to be installed mysql-server : Depends: mysql-server-8.0 but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
How to solve this is out of my knowledge so far. Note: I know there are similar questions on this site. But their solutions are already described here as applied without any positive result.
mysql-server-8.0 (and the like)
where the current install is using:
mysql-community-server, mysql-server (and etc)
same for the client variants.
– J.T.Sage Nov 18 '20 at 15:29