On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 08:20:31 -0800 (PST), Danesh Daroui <danesh_d@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > On a system with fc3 I wanted to upgrade the current > MySQL (3.23) to latest version (4.1). I downloaded > RPMs and installed and then the system got into chaos. > The RPMS uninstalled previous version of MySQL and > installed the new version but the new version doesn't > work. Althought, I can not uninstall this new version > installed. The YUM doesn't remove it and when I run: > > RPM -e MySQL-server-... > > It says that the package is not installed. When I run: > > RPM -i MySQL-server... > > It says the packe is already installed !!! How can I > remove the currently installed MySQL ? Also, does > anybody have any tip about upgrading MySQL from this > damn old version of MySQL which is still with fc3 to > latest version on fc3 without headache ? I'm not sure why you are having problems removing the packages. Can you run the following command and show us the output: rpm -qa | grep -i mysql As for upgrading, you will notice that there are other packages which have a dependency on a library file called libmysqlclient.so.10. The 4.1.9 mysql package installes a newer version (libmysqlclient.so.14) which breaks those dependencies. So you will also need to download from mysql.org (or some other site) a package called MySQL-shared-compat-4.1.9-0 which will leave the 10 version as well as let you install the 14 version. Install the shared-compat version before you remove the old mysql package: rpm -i MySQL-shared-compat-4.1.9-0 rpm -e mysql Then make sure the rest of your old mysql packages are removed, and then install the new 4.1.9 version from the RPMs you can download from mysql.org.
