installing libaprutil1-dev fails with apt-get and shows other problems

[dboosalis]

I wanted to install libaprutil1-dev but when I tried there were some conflicts with mysql. Now when I try to
type apt-get -f install as suggested I always get errors of the following:

The following extra packages will be installed:
libmysqlclient15-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libmysqlclient15-dev
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 22 not upgraded.
12 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/7298kB of archives.
After this operation, 21.1MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database ...
dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `libaprutil1-dev' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.
127010 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libmysqlclient15-dev (from .../libmysqlclient15-dev_5.1.30really5.0.75-0ubuntu9_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libmysqlclient15-dev_5.1.30really5.0.75-0ubuntu9_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/include/mysql/mysql.h', which is also in package libmysqlclient-dev
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libmysqlclient15-d

I've tried all kinds of ways to fix this from apt-get but so far nothing seems to work, including the removal of the package ibmysqlclient-dev.

I know this is a beta a product, but is there anything I can do to resolve this
Many thanks
David

[flarson]

Re: installing libaprutil1-dev fails with apt-get and shows other problems

try
sudo rm /var/cache/apt/archives/libaprutil1-dev-complete-package-name.deb
Then
sudo aptitude update
and
sudo aptitude install libaprutil1-dev
This will get a new copy of the package.

[dboosalis]

Re: installing libaprutil1-dev fails with apt-get and shows other problems

Thanks for your suggestion. I went the looong way and reinstalled the OS.

[Nate]

Re: installing libaprutil1-dev fails with apt-get and shows other problems

Hopefully you had some other reasons to reinstall besides just this one issue. Otherwise, be prepared to reinstall often...