Installing MySQL 5.6 in Ubuntu 14.04 triggers removal of needed packages

Question

So I was trying to make a fresh installation of MySQL 5.6 on Ubuntu 14.04.2 and for some reason it tried to remove needed packages, not without first complaining about some unmet dependencies. Here's what happened:

pedro@hope:~$ sudo apt-get install mysql-server-5.6
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.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 mysql-server-5.6 : Depends: mysql-client-5.6 (>= 5.6.19-0ubuntu0.14.04.1) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: mysql-server-core-5.6 (= 5.6.19-0ubuntu0.14.04.1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
pedro@hope:~$ sudo apt-get install mysql-client-5.6
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.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 mysql-client-5.6 : Depends: mysql-client-core-5.6 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
pedro@hope:~$ sudo apt-get install mysql-client-core-5.6
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  acl advancecomp amor analitza-common ark astrometry.net audiocd-kio
  avogadro-data blinken bomber bovo cantor cantor-backend-kalgebra cervisia
  chemical-mime-data dirmngr dnsmasq-base docbook-to-man dragonplayer edict
  filelight fonts-dustin freerdp-x11 freespacenotifier gnugo granatier
  gwenview iputils-arping juk kaccessible kalgebra kalgebra-common kalzium
  kalzium-data kamera kanagram kanjidic kapman kapptemplate kate katomic
  kblackbox kblocks kbounce kbreakout kbruch kcachegrind kcalc kcharselect
  kcolorchooser kcron kde-artwork-active kde-base-artwork kde-baseapps
  kde-config-cddb kde-config-cron kde-icons-mono kde-style-oxygen
  kde-wallpapers kde-wallpapers-default kde-window-manager
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  kde-zeroconf kdeaccessibility kdeadmin kdeartwork-emoticons kdeartwork-style
  kdeartwork-theme-window kdeedu kdeedu-kvtml-data kdegames-card-data
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  xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vmware zip
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libqt4-declarative-gestures
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  akonadi-backend-mysql akonadi-server akonadiconsole akregator blogilo
  kaddressbook kajongg kalarm kde-config-pimactivity kde-full
  kde-plasma-desktop kde-plasma-netbook kde-standard kde-workspace
  kde-workspace-bin kdeartwork kdegames kdenetwork kdepim kdepim-kresources
  kdepim-runtime kdeplasma-addons kdeutils kdewebdev kgpg kjots kleopatra
  klinkstatus kmail knode knotes konsolekalendar kontact kopete
  kopete-message-indicator korganizer kscreensaver kscreensaver-xsavers
  libcalendarsupport4 libeventviews4 libincidenceeditorsng4 libkdepim4
  libkdepimdbusinterfaces4 libkopete4 libksieveui4 libmailcommon4
  libmailimporter4 libmessagecomposer4 libmessagecore4 libmessagelist4
  libmessageviewer4 libnoteshared4 libpimactivity4 libpimcommon4
  libtemplateparser4 mysql-client-core-5.5 plasma-dataengines-workspace
  plasma-desktop plasma-netbook plasma-runners-addons plasma-wallpapers-addons
  plasma-widget-lancelot plasma-widgets-addons plasma-widgets-workspace
  python-kde4
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libqt4-declarative-gestures mysql-client-core-5.6
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 65 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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After this operation, 125 MB disk space will be freed.
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Abort.

Some extra information, in case it helps:

pedro@hope:~$ uname -a
Linux hope 3.13.0-32-generic #57-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 15 03:51:08 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

KDE SC Version: 4.13.2

Am I missing something? This happened both with the existing MySQL 5.6 version in the repositories and the ones in ppa:ondrej/mysql-5.6. I also followed this tutorial, but the result was the same (trying to remove necessary packages).

Answer 1

This is a bug in akonadi-backend-mysql 1.12.1-0ubuntu1. I just added ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports repository with this bug fixed:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports 
sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get upgrade

After this I installed mysql-server-5.6 successfully.