Using Ubuntu 12.04, desktop, I had LAMP installed on my computer, and was using it as a server. However, after doing the upgrades one day, apt-get throws an error that mysql-server can't be configured, as it depends on another package:

jay@rumbles:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 mysql-server-5.5 : Depends: mysql-server-core-5.5 (= 5.5.22-0ubuntu1) but 5.5.24-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 is installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f

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jay@rumbles:~$ sudo apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  mysql-server-5.5
Suggested packages:
  tinyca mailx
The following packages will be upgraded:
  mysql-server-5.5
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 35 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/8,821 kB of archives.
After this operation, 2,048 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mysql-server-5.5:
 mysql-server-5.5 depends on mysql-server-core-5.5 (= 5.5.22-0ubuntu1); however:
  Version of mysql-server-core-5.5 on system is 5.5.24-0ubuntu0.12.04.1.
dpkg: error processing mysql-server-5.5 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mysql-server:
 mysql-server depends on mysql-server-5.5; however:
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                          No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                                                      Package mysql-server-5.5 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing mysql-server (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 mysql-server-5.5
 mysql-server
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

How can I fix this?