I have the same issue with the newer package 5.7_5.7.13 as well: sudo apt-get install -f Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following additional packages will be installed: mysql-server-5.7 mysql-server-core-5.7 Suggested packages: mailx tinyca The following NEW packages will be installed: mysql-server-5.7 mysql-server-core-5.7 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/10.4 MB of archives. After this operation, 94.4 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 277327 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../mysql-server-core-5.7_5.7.13-0ubuntu0.16.04.2_amd64.deb ... Unpacking mysql-server-core-5.7 (5.7.13-0ubuntu0.16.04.2) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/mysql-server-core-5.7_5.7.13-0ubuntu0.16.04.2_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/share/mysql/charsets/greek.xml', which is also in package mysql-common 5.7.13-1ubuntu14.04 dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe) Preparing to unpack .../mysql-server-5.7_5.7.13-0ubuntu0.16.04.2_amd64.deb ... grep: /etc/mysql/: No such file or directory Unpacking mysql-server-5.7 (5.7.13-0ubuntu0.16.04.2) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/mysql-server-5.7_5.7.13-0ubuntu0.16.04.2_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/share/mysql/errmsg-utf8.txt', which is also in package mysql-common 5.7.13-1ubuntu14.04 dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe) Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ... Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19) ... Processing triggers for systemd (229-4ubuntu7) ... Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/mysql-server-core-5.7_5.7.13-0ubuntu0.16.04.2_amd64.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/mysql-server-5.7_5.7.13-0ubuntu0.16.04.2_amd64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) antunes@iMac12-2-0:~$ sudo apt-get remove mysql-server Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: mysql-server 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 164 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y (Reading database ... 277325 files and directories currently installed.) Removing mysql-server (5.7.13-0ubuntu0.16.04.2) ...
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