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MySQL upgrade on Ubuntu - any heads ups?

I am needing to upgrade MySQL on Ubuntu, it is a production server and naturally cautious. My many googles look to be essentially saying that I need to : Backup my current mysql database and ...
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upgrade mysql 5.1 to 5.5 on Ubuntu 11.10

I currently have mysql server 5.1 installed via apt-get on my production Ubuntu 11.10 server root@Ubuntu-1110-oneiric-64-minimal$ dpkg --get-selections | grep sql-server mysql-server ...
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libreadline.so.6

when I was installing PostgreSQL from source code I had to install the libreadline.so.6 library. From that moment I can't update my kubuntu system. The error is: Setting up ubuntu-keyring ...
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Postgresql: what to do about upgrading “main” cluster from 8.4 to 9.1 when a 9.1 “main” already exists?

I have an existing 8.4 cluster (named main) that I want to upgrade to 9.1. However, when I go to upgrade it, I get an error because 9.1 already has a cluster named main (apparently a default cluster ...
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Trying to create PostGIS database

I am trying to create a spatially enabled PostGIS database. I am following the PostGIS documentation, http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/manual-1.5/ch02.html#id2648455. In the short ...
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MySql 5.5 in ubuntu repository

Sorry for duplicate question. I am looking for the best way to install mysql 5.5 on ubuntu. So far, there are few options: Installing from tar.gz Installing from PPA. Alien on RPM. All of them ...
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PostgreSQL cannot start after replacing contents inside its Data folder

When recovering the Postgresql database from a hacked Ubuntu 12.04 server, I copied the data directory to another location, reinstalled the OS and PostgreSQL, stopped PostgreSQL service, removed the ...
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Ubuntu 12, PostgreSQL 9.2, PostGIS 2.0

At the current moment, March 4th 2013, can PostGIS2.0 be install with PostgreSQL 9.2? I checked their website and to my understanding it is not possible... I hope that's not the case. Can anyone ...

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