package manager broken

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On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 09:05:37AM -0400, Paul Tremblay wrote:
> I get this following messages when I open up my software manager:
> 
> Items cannot be repaired or installed or removed until the package
> is repaired.
> 
> When I try to repair the package manager, I get the message I posted below.
> 
> I have tried everything to fix it, including
> 
> sudo apt-get -f install, but get this message:
> 
> mysql-server-5.5 (5.5.31-0ubuntu0.12.04.1) breaks mysql-server (<<
> 5.5.31-0ubuntu0.12.04.1) and is installed.
>   Version of mysql-server to be configured is 5.5.29-0ubuntu0.12.04.2.
> dpkg: error processing mysql-server (--configure):
>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> No apport report written because the error message indicates its a
> followup error from a previous failure.
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  mysql-server
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> I have MySQL 5.5.31 installed, and I installed it by using the
> Ubuntu package manager.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Paul
> 
> *SNIP* 
> -- 
> Paul Tremblay
> ICQA Program Developer
> 
> 

Hi,

Can you give us the output of `locale`? Seems like something has gone
awry regarding locales.
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