我面临这个问题。 请帮帮我。
myr# sudo apt-get install mysql-server Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: mysql-server: Depends: mysql-server-5.0 but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages 8.10之后有5个新的Ubuntu版本，我怀疑它仍然支持。 我的猜测是Ubuntu 8.10的存储库已经消失，因此您的系统无法加载安装所需的软件包。
我首先将Ubuntu升级到11.04，或者至less升级到10.04的最新的LTS支持版本。
我同意升级你的系统，但首先你可以试试这个：
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
（这将升级你的系统，为你实际的Ubuntu版本提供所有最新的软件包）
然后 ：
sudo apt-get install mysql-server