apt-get and MySQL problem (newbie)

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 18:20:59 +0200, Luke Venediger <lukev123 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I'm an Ubuntu newbie and I'm trying to get MySQL installed on the
> Warty release. As root I run the following
> 
> apt-get mysql-server
> 
> and I expect it to resolve all dependencies etc and begin downloading
> and installing (I've updated my sources.list file)
> 
> But I get an error saying that one of the dependencies cannot be
> installed. When I try install the dependency I eventually arrive at a
> package called "libplrpc-perl", which apt-get tells me is not
> available although it is being referred to by another package.

What message do you get if you type sudo apt-get install libplrpc-perl?

-Eamonn