Mysql 5.1 my.cnf not in /etc/mysql

I installed mysql-server-5.1 on my Ubuntu server using apt-get install mysql-server, but i cant find my.cnf file.

It is not in /etc/mysql. In /etc/mysql i have only:

conf.d
\-mysqld_safe_syslog.cnf
debian-start
sebian.cnf

I have tried uninstalling/installing mysql multiple times, but still nothing.

Also, when installing mysql, i get messages like this: (i have installed dialog)

debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
debconf: (TERM is not set, so the dialog frontend is not usable.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline

From serverfault aRagnis

• EDITED : Sometimes the my.cnf is located in just the /etc directory.

  /etc/my.cnf

  From DKNUCKLES

• You can copy one from /usr/share/doc/mysql-server-5.1/examples/ . Rename it to my.cnf and place in /etc/mysql/my.cnf

  and about dialog , set your TERM environment variable.

  From Casual Coder

• If you installed mysql-server, it should have installed mysql-common which includes that file. I'm guessing that something failed in that installation, disk out of space, interrupted for whatever reason.

  apt-get --reinstall install mysql-common
  

  which is a predependency for mysql-server-5.1

  If it comes up with errors, try:

  dpkg --reconfigure -a
  

  or

  apt-get -f install
  

  From karmawhore