mysql mod security error - mysql

Question

I am trying to install mysql mod security on my debian machine, but it gives me the following error when I do this -
apt-get install libapache-mod-security
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
liblua5.1-0 mod-security-common
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libapache-mod-security liblua5.1-0 mod-security-common
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 93 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/1,173 kB of archives.
After this operation, 3,506 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
syntax error: unknown user 'mixmaster' in statoverride file
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

Answer 1

Try this
sudo apt-get remove --purge mixmaster
Or
Check for
cat /etc/groups.default | grep mix
If there is a mixmaster user/group in defaults put it in the system file too
edit /etc/groups and put in the put in the output of cat /etc/groups.default | grep mix command
run apt-get again
Or
Check for
dpkg-statoverride
This command may be of some help