errors with updating mysql4 to mysql5

[payne]

Hi all
I'm getting these errors when updating mysql4 to mysql5 with debain 3.1,kernel version 2.6.8-2-686-smp.

serveris:~# apt-get install mysql-client mysql-server mysql-common 
Reading Package Lists... Done 
Building Dependency Tree... Done 
mysql-common is already the newest version. 
The following extra packages will be installed: 
  libmysqlclient15off lsb-base mysql-client-5.0 mysql-server-5.0 
Suggested packages: 
  mysql-doc tinyca 
The following NEW packages will be installed: 
  libmysqlclient15off lsb-base mysql-client-5.0 mysql-server-5.0 
The following packages will be upgraded: 
  mysql-client mysql-server 
2 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 17 not upgraded. 
Need to get 35.5MB of archives. 
After unpacking 95.8MB of additional disk space will be used. 
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y 
Get:1 http://dotdeb.pimpmylinux.org sarge/all mysql-server 5.0.41-1.dotdeb.0 [49.0kB] 
Get:2 http://dotdeb.pimpmylinux.org sarge/all mysql-client 5.0.41-1.dotdeb.0 [46.8kB] 
Get:3 http://dotdeb.pimpmylinux.org sarge/all libmysqlclient15off 5.0.41-1.dotdeb.0 [1806kB] 
Get:4 http://ftp.de.debian.org sarge/main lsb-base 2.0-7 [8662B] 
Get:5 http://dotdeb.pimpmylinux.org sarge/all mysql-client-5.0 5.0.41-1.dotdeb.0 [7269kB] 
Get:6 http://dotdeb.pimpmylinux.org sarge/all mysql-server-5.0 5.0.41-1.dotdeb.0 [26.3MB] 
Fetched 35.5MB in 22s (1585kB/s) 
Preconfiguring packages ... 
mysql-server-5.0 template parse error: Template #1 in /tmp/mysql-server-5.0.template.218820 does not contain a 'Template:' line 

(Reading database ... 32794 files and directories currently installed.) 
Preparing to replace mysql-server 4.0.24-10sarge2 (using .../mysql-server_5.0.41-1.dotdeb.0_all.deb) ... 
Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld. 
Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld. 
Unpacking replacement mysql-server ... 
dpkg: warning - unable to delete old file `/etc/logcheck/ignore.d.paranoid': Directory not empty 
Preparing to replace mysql-client 4.0.24-10sarge2 (using .../mysql-client_5.0.41-1.dotdeb.0_all.deb) ... 
Unpacking replacement mysql-client ... 
Selecting previously deselected package libmysqlclient15off. 
Unpacking libmysqlclient15off (from .../libmysqlclient15off_5.0.41-1.dotdeb.0_i386.deb) ... 
Selecting previously deselected package mysql-client-5.0. 
Unpacking mysql-client-5.0 (from .../mysql-client-5.0_5.0.41-1.dotdeb.0_i386.deb) ... 
Selecting previously deselected package lsb-base. 
Unpacking lsb-base (from .../lsb-base_2.0-7_all.deb) ... 
Selecting previously deselected package mysql-server-5.0. 
Unpacking mysql-server-5.0 (from .../mysql-server-5.0_5.0.41-1.dotdeb.0_i386.deb) ... 
Template #1 in /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/templates does not contain a 'Template:' line 
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/mysql-server-5.0_5.0.41-1.dotdeb.0_i386.deb (--unpack): 
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 9 
Errors were encountered while processing: 
 /var/cache/apt/archives/mysql-server-5.0_5.0.41-1.dotdeb.0_i386.deb 
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Now mysql is stopped and even command /etc/init.d/mysql start not working.

serveris:~# /etc/init.d/mysql start 
serveris:~#

I need to correct it as faster as i can


Thanks in advice

[firepong]

what linux distro are you using?

[jledhead]

try apt-get -f install mysql5

-f = force and it usually will fix package install problems. but hopefully you backed up mysql first