mysql upgrade error

[Colin Law]

On 10 August 2013 13:56, Phil Dobbin <bukowskiscat at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/08/13 13:27, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> On 10 August 2013 11:24, Phil Dobbin <bukowskiscat at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> ...
>>> By the way, I managed to re-install MySQL so I just need to re-install
>>> OwnCloud & it's back to business.
>>
>> Why did you need to re-install?  Could you not just revert to the
>> previous version?
>>
>>
> Well, OwnCloud needed upgrading & I have backups so I thought I'd start with
> a clean slate.
>
> As a matter of interest, how would I have reverted?

First disable updates from proposed in your software sources (you have
done that I hope, otherwise you will get the problem again).  Then I
/think/ that just
sudo apt-get install mysql-server
would have done it, though not completely certain.

Colin