出处：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13276088/cant-start-mysql5-5-on-ubuntu-12-04-dpkg-dependency-problems 安装数据库报错如下：apt-get install -f mysql-server Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done mysql-server is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 2 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y Setting up mysql-server-5.5 (5.5.24-0ubuntu0.12.04.1) ... 120907 21:37:15 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled. 120907 21:37:15 InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled 120907 21:37:15 InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use GCC atomic builtins 120907 21:37:15 InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.3.4 120907 21:37:15 InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 128.0M 120907 21:37:15 InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool 120907 21:37:15 InnoDB: highest supported file format is Barracuda. 120907 21:37:15 InnoDB: Waiting for the background threads to start 120907 21:37:16 InnoDB: 1.1.8 started; log sequence number 154164236 120907 21:37:16 InnoDB: Starting shutdown... 120907 21:37:16 InnoDB: Shutdown completed; log sequence number 154164236 start: Job failed to start invoke-rc.d: initscript mysql, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing mysql-server-5.5 (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mysql-server: mysql-server depends on mysql-server-5.5; however: Package mysql-server-5.5 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing mysql-server (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure. Errors were encountered while processing: mysql-server-5.5 mysql-server解决方法：
$ sudo apt-get --yes autoremove --purge mysql-server-5.5$ sudo apt-get --yes autoremove --purge mysql-client-5.5$ sudo apt-get --yes autoremove --purge mysql-common$ sudo rm -rf /var/lib/mysql /etc/mysql ~/.mysql$ sudo deluser mysql$ sudo apt-get autoclean$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade$ sudo apt-get install mysql-server-5.5 mysql-client-5.5$ sudo dpkg --configure -a