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I'm trying to update Mysql on debian without success, and all tutorial on internet just fails.
I got Debian 6.0.6 squeeze, my mysql version is mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.1.63.
I did apt-get update and apt-get upgrade it says that nothing is to upgrade.
So I downloaded the last version wget --content-disposition http://www.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-5.5/mysql-5.5.28-debian6.0-x86_64.deb/from/http://cdn.mysql.com/ and installed it 

# dpkg -i mysql-5.5.28-debian6.0-x86_64.deb 
(Reading database ... 41264 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace mysql 5.5.28 (using mysql-5.5.28-debian6.0-x86_64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement mysql ...
Setting up mysql (5.5.28) ...

And... Nothing...

I deleted the previous package apt-get --purge remove mysql-server then reinstalled it like above, same message, and nothing was installed.

when I do mysql -V I have version mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.1.63, for debian-linux-gnu (x86_64) using readline 6.1 and when I do dpkg -l mysql I get version 5.5.28... on phpinfo I got 5.1.63

Is there a step missing to do this installation ?

Thank you very much

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What does dpkg -l | grep mysql show you? I think you may have upgraded the server package but not the client. Certainly, running mysql -V gives you the client version, not the version of any server. – itsbruce Oct 11 '12 at 12:31
ii mysql 5.5.28 MySQL built using CMake – user1682624 Oct 11 '12 at 12:48
Ok, then what does which mysql tell you? You may have more than one mysql client on your system, with the older one on the path. Also, use dpkg -L mysql to see where the package has put its mysql client, then run that version explicitly, using the full path, to see what version that reports. – itsbruce Oct 11 '12 at 12:52
I did the manipulation of sudonano so doing which mysql doesn't return anything – user1682624 Oct 11 '12 at 12:55
Ah, so you removed all the evidence ;) – itsbruce Oct 11 '12 at 13:22
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Well, I can only recommend you to try "sudo apt-cache search mysql"
to find everything related. "sudo apt-get purge mysql*" to remove everything related. Besides, it's recommended to use aptitude instead of apt, but if you started with apt, keep it.

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I did this, but can't reinstall anything... – user1682624 Oct 11 '12 at 12:50
I know some people recommend using aptitude rather than apt. I think they are wrong. aptitude is just a front-end to the apt-get suite and has, at times, kept its own cache of metadata about packages quite separately from the main package database. By all means use aptitude to query the package database but I would advise against using it at the command-line to install or manage packages - apt-get is perfectly good for that. Do you have any specific reason to recommend against apt-get, or is this just voodoo advice? – itsbruce Oct 11 '12 at 12:55
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You can see aptitude features here wiki.debian.org/Aptitude Well I recommend to use aptitude instead of apt-get because of it's better dependencies handling. – sudonano Oct 11 '12 at 14:13

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