On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 18:08:51 -0500, chuck hodge <chodge2@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ok, I hope this doesn't sound dumb, but there are three downloads you > need from the mysql site: the server, the client, and the shared > components. Install the components first followed by the server and then > the client. If you have databases from an earlier distribution you will > need to run a script that is part of the download that updates the grant > tables (mysql_fix_privilege_tables). After the grant tables are fixed > you should be fine. > WOW, 11 responses and finally the right one gets posted. OK, OK, so not that the other ones were wrong, but just not all as easy as they could be. Getting the SRPMS and building from scratch really isn't necessary when mysql.org already has compiled RPMs that work. There is really only one thing that you have to watch out for. Install the mysql-shared-compat-4.1.9 package before you remove your existing mysql stuff. Then install the other 4.1.9 packages (server and client). Then you migrate any existing databases as mentioned above and you should be fine. And you don't have to compile anything. The shared-compat package simply provides the dependency for libmysqlclient.so.10 which is required by some other packages and would have been removed if you erased the old mysql.3.23 version. David
