UPDATED

I finally got it to work using “alien” and converting the .RPM to .deb. Then I installed it on Ubuntu 11.04 See how I did it HERE… 07/26/2011

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Previously my tuorial did not seem to work completely, so I am trying again with a new source:

http://geek.co.il/wp/2011/03/02/mysql-5-5-on-ubuntu-10-10