I read a lot about the issues here with mysql server and client 5.6 on ubuntu 14.04 and tried all the things but I cannot get it to work.
Following steps I already took
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get remove --purge mysql-server mysql-client mysql-common
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/mysql
sudo rm -rf /etc/mysql
sudo apt-get install mysql-server-5.6
error from installation
Setting up mysql-common (5.6.25-3+deb.sury.org~trusty+1) ...
update-alternatives: error: alternative path /etc/mysql/my.cnf.fallback doesn't
exist
dpkg: error processing package mysql-common (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
mysql-common
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Can anyone help here? thanks a lot
my.cnf.fallabck
file that was missing – northern-bradley Jun 28 '16 at 20:47