# Dependency issues installing percona-server-server-5.1

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/dependency-issues-installing-percona-server-server-5-1/1793>\
**Category:** Other MySQL® Questions\
**Created:** [April 10, 2012, 9:07am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/dependency-issues-installing-percona-server-server-5-1/1793 "2012-04-10T09:07:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![tompercival](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@tompercival](https://forums.percona.com/u/tompercival)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 9:07am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/dependency-issues-installing-percona-server-server-5-1/1793/1 "2012-04-10T09:07:29Z")

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Hi

I’m trying to install percona-server-server-5.1 on Ubuntu.

When I run apt-get install percona-server-server-5.1 i get:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:  
percona-server-server-5.1 : Depends: percona-server-client-5.1 (\>= 5.1.59-rel13.0-325.maverick) but it is not going to be installed  
Depends: libmysqlclient16 (\>= 5.1.21-1) but it is not going to be installed  
E: Broken packages

If I try to manually install those packages I get stuck in a loop of installing and uninstalling mysql-common.

Can anyone help?

Many thanks

Tom

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**Author:** ![Lowercases](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/lowercases/32/16882_2.png) [@Lowercases](https://forums.percona.com/u/Lowercases)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2012, 7:49am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/dependency-issues-installing-percona-server-server-5-1/1793/2 "2012-04-16T07:49:19Z")

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Hello Tom,

Since we no longer support maverick, the version of Percona-Server in its repository is becoming old – our last release for 5.1 is 5.1.61 and maverick holds 5.1.59.

What happens here is that apt-get gets confused because it find libmysqlclient16 version 5.1.61 in the official maverick repo, so it tries to install this version (which in turn depends on mysql-common in the official repo).

In order to install the version from our repository use its full version:

# apt-get install libmysqlclient16=5.1.59-rel13.0-325.maverick percona-server-server-5.1

and it will work.

Please note that since maverick won’t get any more updates, we suggest moving to a newer ubuntu release, preferably an LTS one.

Best regards,

## Ignacio.

Ignacio Nin  
Build Engineer, Percona Inc.