Installation of MySQL 5.7 on Debian 7 Wheezy - mysql

Question

I would like to install MySql 5.7 on Debian 7 Wheezy. I put :
deb http://repo.mysql.com/apt/debian/ wheezy mysql-5.7
in file:
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/mysql.list
Next I run commands:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
And tried install package:
sudo apt-get install mysql-server-5.7
I got an error:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'mysql-community-server' instead of 'mysql-server-5.7'
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-community-server : Depends: mysql-common (= 5.7.11-1debian7) but 5.5.47-0+deb7u1 is to be installed
Depends: mysql-client (= 5.7.11-1debian7)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Do you have any ideas to resolve this problem?
I also tried:
Note, selecting 'mysql-community-server' instead of 'mysql-server-5.7'
But it's not the solution of the problem.

Answer 1

I stumbled upon this post and can confirm simply changing the priority of your cache by downloading the .deb package directly from MySQL Downloads
Using the command line:
$ cd /usr/src && sudo wget http://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql-apt-config_0.7.3-1_all.deb
Please note: by convension the /src directory on linux exists for source code to live before being compiled - I believe the deb package above therefore belongs here.
This works for Debian/Wheezy.
$ sudo dpkg -i http://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql-apt-config_0.7.3-1_all.deb
Once this you have gone through the steps, you simply hit Ok, and then proceed to install mysql-server like normal:
$ sudo apt-update
$ sudo apt-get install mysql-server
For me, this resulted in the following:
[info] MySQL Community Server 5.7.14 is started.
Setting up mysql-server (5.7.14-1debian7) ...
Further reading, if you ever want to remove this package, you can do so:
$ cd /usr/src && sudo dpkg --remove http://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql-apt-config_0.7.3-1_all.deb

Answer 2

As of 2020 with Debian Wheezy 7.11 the answer doesn't work anymore. I had to change a few things and thought it might be useful to share the result:
Install mysql-apt-config_0.8.10-1_all.deb (Version 0.8.15-1_all won't work: dpkg can't handle the "control.tar.xz" it contains.)
cd /usr/src
sudo wget https://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql-apt-config_0.8.10-1_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i mysql-apt-config_0.8.10-1_all.deb
This will create the necessary /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mysql.list file.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mysql-server
Thanks goes to David Kehr from where I got the working mysql-apt-config version.

Answer 3

You don't need to specify the version in the apt-get command, just type :
sudo apt-get install mysql-server
After the install, you can type the following command to check mysql version
aptitude show mysql-server
On my machine I have the following result :
...
Version : 5.7.13-1debian7
...