Re: [stellation-res] Stellation support for MySQL on Linux

["Jonathan Gossage" <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually I am planning to install Linux from the current Debian distribution
but I will let you know how things go and will provide some installation
notes.

Regards

Jonathan

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Shields" <shields@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <stellation-res@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 11:49 AM
Subject: Re: [stellation-res] Stellation support for MySQL on Linux


> On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 01:21:34PM -0500, Jonathan Gossage wrote:
> > I'll send the details when I get home tonight. I believe the details are
> > different though for Windows and for Linux. If you can hold off a few
days,
> > I have just bought myself a Linux box which I was planning to setup this
> > weekend. As part of the setup I can install MySQL and write a procedure
for
> > you.
>
> Re Linux, you want to download and install the files
>   MySQL-4.0.4-0.i386.rpm
>   MySQL-client-4.0.4-0.i386.rpm
>   MySQL-shared-4.0.4-0.i386.rpm
>
> You install them using the 'rpm' (RedHat Package Manager) program. rpm has
> a large and non-obvious set of options. Try (whilst logged in as root)
>     rpm -Uv MySQL*.rpm
> When I did this on a stock RH 7.3 system, rpm failed with messages about
> breaking dependencies. I think you should be able to overcome this with
>     rpm --force -Uv MySQL*.rpm
> What I actually did was to remove the offending packages (they are not
required
> for normal operation) by hand (having forgotten about --force).
> For example if complaint was about xxxx, I did
>     rpm -e xxx
> and tried 'rpm -Uv MySQL*' until it worked.
>
> Other useful rpm options
>    rpm -qa
> lists all the installed packages, for example
>    rpm -qa | grep MySQL
> and
>    rpm -q -filesbypkg MySQL
> lists all the files provided by MySQL
> and
>    rpm -q -f file
> lists the package that provides file, for example
>    rpm -q -f /usr/bin/mysql
> gives
>    MySQL-client-4.0.4-0
>
> It would be helpful if you could first try
>   rpm --force Uv MySQL*.rpm
> If this fails and you have to manually remove the others
> please note their names, so I can add them to install documentation.
>
> I managed to get Ant and IBM's Java 1.3 JDK installed on my Win 2000
> system last night.  What I thought would take a few minutes took
> a few hours, reminding me once again how annoying it is to work with
> this system.  I'll try to install MySQL over the weekend.
>
> dave
>
> --
> Dave Shields, IBM Research, shields@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.
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