Ubuntu 18.04 mysql Installation error: Error: dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mysql-server

I'm on Ubuntu 18.04, I'm installing Mysql, i typed: sudo apt-get install mysql-server i received this with an error at the end: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done mysql-server is already the newest version (5.7.28-0ubuntu0.18.04.4). 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 2 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Setting up mysql-server-5.7 (5.7.28-0ubuntu0.18.04.4) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/mysql-server-5.7.postinst: line 191: /usr/share/mysql-common/configure-symlinks: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing package mysql-server-5.7 (--configure): installed mysql-server-5.7 package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 127 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mysql-server: mysql-server depends on mysql-server-5.7; however: Package mysql-server-5.7 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package mysql-server (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure. Errors were encountered while processing: mysql-server-5.7 mysql-server E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Additional Information: When i typed: apt-cache policy mysql-common I got this response: mysql-common: Installed: 1:10.4.11+maria~bionic Candidate: 1:10.4.11+maria~bionic Version table: *** 1:10.4.11+maria~bionic 100 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1:10.3.21+maria~bionic 500 500 http://ftp.utexas.edu/mariadb/repo/10.3/ubuntu bionic/main ppc64el Packages 500 http://ftp.utexas.edu/mariadb/repo/10.3/ubuntu bionic/main arm64 Packages 500 http://ftp.utexas.edu/mariadb/repo/10.3/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages 500 http://sfo1.mirrors.digitalocean.com/mariadb/repo/10.3/ubuntu bionic/main ppc64el Packages 500 http://sfo1.mirrors.digitalocean.com/mariadb/repo/10.3/ubuntu bionic/main arm64 Packages 500 http://sfo1.mirrors.digitalocean.com/mariadb/repo/10.3/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages 1:10.3.20+maria~bionic 500 500 http://ftp.utexas.edu/mariadb/repo/10.3/ubuntu bionic/main ppc64el Packages 500 http://ftp.utexas.edu/mariadb/repo/10.3/ubuntu bionic/main arm64 Packages 500 http://ftp.utexas.edu/mariadb/repo/10.3/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages 500 http://sfo1.mirrors.digitalocean.com/mariadb/repo/10.3/ubuntu bionic/main ppc64el Packages 500 http://sfo1.mirrors.digitalocean.com/mariadb/repo/10.3/ubuntu bionic/main arm64 Packages 500 http://sfo1.mirrors.digitalocean.com/mariadb/repo/10.3/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages 1:10.3.14+maria~bionic 500 500 http://archive.mariadb.org/mariadb-10.3.14/repo/ubuntu bionic/main ppc64el Packages 500 http://archive.mariadb.org/mariadb-10.3.14/repo/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages 500 http://archive.mariadb.org/mariadb-10.3.14/repo/ubuntu bionic/main arm64 Packages 5.8+1.0.4 500 500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages 500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main i386 Packages I have tried SO MANY solutions, from desintalling mysql, installing mariadb, seeing different solutions on stackOverflow.. and didnt get to put my finger on the error exactly. Really appreciate the help i have been stuck with this for a while...