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I researched a lot but could not find any link which gives step by step procedure. Everywhere, there are vague answers. Can someone please give me steps to be followed to install Mysql 5.1 ?

It gives me an error and stop the execution even when i use -f. This is the message from command prompt.

The following packages have unmet dependencies: mysql-server-5.1 : Depends: mysql-client-5.1 (>= 5.1.61-0ubuntu0.10.10.1) but it is not going to be installed

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edited answer - try that – Phil Mar 22 '12 at 14:27
Same message even after trying sudo apt-get install mysql-server-5.1 mysql-client-5.1 – vinny Mar 22 '12 at 14:55
Are you sure it didn't tell you what the unmet dependencies are? – Phil Mar 22 '12 at 15:12
it gave me number of unmet dependencies... here they are Depends: libdbd-mysql-perl , Depends: mysql-common, Depends: libmysqlclient16 , Depends: mysql-server-core-5.1, PreDepends: mysql-common – vinny Mar 26 '12 at 14:39

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sudo apt-get install mysql-server-5.1 mysql-client-5.1

... from the command prompt should just work.

If not, edit your question with the full error messages you are seeing.

Post-installation steps are summarized in this blog post.

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Try this 

sudo apt-get install mysql-server

from the terminal

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