Upgrade MySQL 5.5 to 5.6 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

I'm trying to upgrade MySQL 5.5 to version 5.6 on my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS server. I've tried the following:

apt-get -y remove mysql-server
apt-get -y autoremove
apt-get -y install software-properties-common
add-apt-repository -y ppa:ondrej/mysql-5.6
apt-get update
apt-get -y install mysql-server

When I try this, I'm still left with version 5.5. Is there no simple way of upgrading in 12.04? Seriously need it for Magento 2! :(

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If I go to I can see clearly that the package you're interested in is named mysql-5.6. So you could go ahead and

sudo apt-get install mysql-5.6

Packages from 3rd party repos don't have to follow the same naming convention as Ubuntu repos.

But as @Florian Diesch noticed, there are no packages for your Ubuntu version in that repo.

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