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I am about to setup a couple of LAMP servers using Ubuntu 10.04. The problem is that I have noticed that Dovecot needs the MySQL-common package to work. I don't want to install that package since I am going to use the MySQL 5.5 binaries...so I don't know if I should install all the packages of MySQL 5.1 using apt-get or just leave MySQL-common 5.1 and use the 5.5 version for the applications.

What would you do?. To use MySQL 5.1? or MySQL 5.5 and the 5.1 MySQL common?.

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  • do you have specific reasons for wanting to go to 5.5?
    – sreimer
    Apr 18, 2011 at 20:35
  • well, I read that the performance is better, specially with innodb tables :)
    – Curri
    Apr 18, 2011 at 23:48
  • If you're looking for pure throughput, it has been said that 5.1 is a bit quicker facebook.com/note.php?note_id=483402225932
    – sreimer
    Apr 19, 2011 at 4:20

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Use whichever version is latest on your distribution of choice. I'd suggest you use Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, and the current version of that is.. MySQL 5.1.41-3ubuntu12.7

That means that you'll get easy to install binaries sudo apt-get install mysql-server , and support for them from the ubuntu community, because things will happen as expected.

Mixing and matching mysql-server and mysql-client versions is likely to fail in surprising and unexpected ways. Especially at 5pm on a Friday. Don't Do It.

If dovecot requires MySQL, why not let apt's package manager handle those dependencies for you too.

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  • Thanks, It's what I needed to read :D. But why the ubuntu version is so old?, it was lunched on January 2010!
    – Curri
    Apr 18, 2011 at 23:48

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