This is easy to verify on clean Debian 7 (without mysql-* installed): ... Setting up exim4-daemon-heavy (4.80-7) ... [....] Starting MTA:/usr/sbin/exim4: /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.18: no version information available (required by /usr/sbin/exim4) /usr/sbin/exim4: /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.18: no version information available (required by /usr/sbin/exim4) /usr/sbin/exim4: /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.18: no version information available (required by /usr/sbin/exim4) [ ok 4. Just did the following: root@debian7:~# fc -l ... 54 apt-get install percona-server-server-5.5 percona-server-client-5.5 55 mysql -uroot -proot 56 which mysql ... 66 apt-get install exim4-daemon-heavy root@debian7:~# ldd /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.18 linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb7777000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7465000) libssl.so.1.0.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libssl.so.1.0.0 (0xb740d000) libcrypto.so.1.0.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libcrypto.so.1.0.0 (0xb724d000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb7249000) libm.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb7223000) librt.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/librt.so.1 (0xb721a000) libc.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb70b7000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7778000) libz.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0xb709d000) root@debian7:~# ldd /usr/sbin/exim4 /usr/sbin/exim4: /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.18: no version information available (required by /usr/sbin/exim4) linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb7705000) libresolv.so.2 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libresolv.so.2 (0xb75d3000) libnsl.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libnsl.so.1 (0xb75bc000) libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libcrypt.so.1 (0xb7589000) libm.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb7563000) libpam.so.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpam.so.0 (0xb7554000) libdb-5.1.so => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libdb-5.1.so (0xb73c2000) libldap_r-2.4.so.2 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libldap_r-2.4.so.2 (0xb7370000) liblber-2.4.so.2 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/liblber-2.4.so.2 (0xb7360000) libmysqlclient.so.18 => /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.18 (0xb7072000) libpq.so.5 => /usr/lib/libpq.so.5 (0xb7047000) libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0xb6f97000) libsasl2.so.2 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libsasl2.so.2 (0xb6f7b000) libperl.so.5.14 => /usr/lib/libperl.so.5.14 (0xb6df1000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb6ded000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb6dd4000) libc.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb6c71000) libgnutls.so.26 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgnutls.so.26 (0xb6ba8000) libpcre.so.3 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpcre.so.3 (0xb6b69000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7706000) libgcrypt.so.11 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcrypt.so.11 (0xb6ae4000) libssl.so.1.0.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libssl.so.1.0.0 (0xb6a8c000) libcrypto.so.1.0.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libcrypto.so.1.0.0 (0xb68cd000) librt.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/librt.so.1 (0xb68c4000) libkrb5.so.3 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libkrb5.so.3 (0xb67f1000) libcom_err.so.2 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libcom_err.so.2 (0xb67ec000) libgssapi_krb5.so.2 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgssapi_krb5.so.2 (0xb67ae000) libtasn1.so.3 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libtasn1.so.3 (0xb679c000) libz.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0xb6783000) libp11-kit.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libp11-kit.so.0 (0xb6770000) libgpg-error.so.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgpg-error.so.0 (0xb676c000) libk5crypto.so.3 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libk5crypto.so.3 (0xb6742000) libkrb5support.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libkrb5support.so.0 (0xb6739000) libkeyutils.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libkeyutils.so.1 (0xb6734000)