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Unfortunately, yes, you'll need to reduce the size of your root LV.
(You could reduce the size of swap, too, but that's already a fairly small volume)
Even if you can use that 4MB, a snapshot of your root volume will become invalid quite quickly when LVM runs out of "free" disk space.
You get prompted with a text box asking how much of your disk to use ...
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Well, I have some advice for you.
Given https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/serverguide/mysql.html,
As of Ubuntu 12.04, MySQL 5.5 is installed by default
Go with the 5.5.x version they supply, and update accordingly.
If you don't want to do that and really want 5.5.29 for a specific reason, go for mysql-5.5.29-debian6.0-x86_64.deb as Ubuntu was derived ...
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