I am also trying to upgrade mysql to 5.6 on Ubuntu 14.04. If I issue
# apt-get install mysql-server-5.6
I receive the message :
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
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-server-5.6 : Depends: mysql-server-core-5.6 (= 5.6.19-0ubuntu0.14.04.1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
If I issue
# apt-get install mysql-server-core-5.6
I receive the message:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED
cloudflare-servershield libpam-plesk mysql-server mysql-server-5.5
mysql-server-core-5.5 plesk-base plesk-config-troubleshooter plesk-core
plesk-l10n plesk-mail-pc-driver plesk-management-node plesk-roundcube
plesk-service-node-utilities plesk-web-hosting pp-sitebuilder
pp12.0.18-bootstrapper psa-drweb-configurator psa-fileserver psa-firewall
psa-health-monitor psa-horde psa-imp psa-ingo psa-kronolith psa-libxml-proxy
psa-mail-driver-common psa-mailman-configurator psa-mnemo psa-passwd
psa-php5-configurator psa-phpmyadmin psa-phppgadmin psa-pylibplesk psa-turba
psa-updates psa-vpn psa-watchdog wpb-core wpb-headers
The following NEW packages will be installed
mysql-server-core-5.6
0 to upgrade, 1 to newly install, 39 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
Need to get 4,761 kB of archives.
After this operation, 603 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.
Would it be safe to have all those plesk packages removed? How would they be restored if they are removed?