- complained a bit but seems to have worked and nothing appears broken as a result (so far).
installed mytop instead - which works (& uses a password protected mysql user id!). all other apt-get install's now seem to work ok as well, including apt-get install fail2ban - which mtop was breaking before.
OK - i just uninstalled mtop altogether using:
apt-get purge mtop
- complained a bit but seems to have worked and nothing appears broken as a result (so far).
installed mytop instead - which works (& uses a password protected mysql user id!). all other apt-get install's now seem to work ok as well, including apt-get install fail2ban - which mtop was breaking before.
hope this helps someone.