mysql 5.5.8 on lenny

[Bazy]

Hello,

I'm running 10.04.2 LTS on 64bit. The mysql version that I can install
with from lenny packages is 5.1.41-3ubuntu12.9, but, for the hell of
it :-) the developers require 5.5.8. I've been googling around and
found "alien" to convert rpm to deb, I also found some packages in
ppa's but I'm not installing those in production.
What would be the best/recommended way to install mysql 5.5.8?


Thank you for your ideas,
Cheers!
Bazy