topic Re: RPM's in Operating System - Linux

RPM's

Kyle D. Harris — Thu, 12 Feb 2004 09:53:49 GMT

I have downloaded 7 mysql RPM's. Is there a certain order you have to install them.

First i did "rpm -i MySQL-bench-4.0.17-0.i386.rpm" and i get a warning about a V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key id 5072e1f5 ... Then i get 2 failed dependencies saying MySQL-client is needed by MySQL-bench ... Anybody have any ideas? Thanks

Re: RPM's

Paul Cross_1 — Thu, 12 Feb 2004 10:06:52 GMT

you only have the benchmark/test suite rpm, you need MySQL-server-4.0.17-0.i386.rpm and MySQL-client-4.0.17-0.i386.rpm. then do:
rpm -Uvh mysql*

should work.

Re: RPM's

Kyle D. Harris — Thu, 12 Feb 2004 10:11:10 GMT

I have them all. I just started to install the bench one first... Didn't know there was a order. Do you actually do the libraries first? Thanks.

Kyle

Re: RPM's

Bruce Copeland — Thu, 12 Feb 2004 10:29:13 GMT

I find it easier to just do something like rpm -i mysql*, or if you have several rpms that don't have any common filename syntax, you can put them all in a temporary folder with nothing else, and then do rpm -i *. Then rpm will be able to figure out the order it wants. You'll still get the warning about V3 DSA signature, unless you set up to check rpm signatures. I don't (as long as I'm getting the rpm(s) from a trusted site).

Bruce

Re: RPM's

Jerome Henry — Thu, 12 Feb 2004 10:48:26 GMT

Hi Kyle,

100% agree with Bruce :
rpm -ivh mysql*
It will also solve the problem where a needs b and b needs a...

rpm -whatrequires package name will get you the list and order, but why bother ?...
hth

J

Re: RPM's

Kyle D. Harris — Thu, 12 Feb 2004 10:48:57 GMT

How long do rpm's take to install/update... Is more then 10 min so far common?

Re: RPM's

Bruce Copeland — Thu, 12 Feb 2004 10:59:47 GMT

Well it depends slightly on what the rpm has to do during installation, but I can't ever recall anything that took more than a minute even with 30 Mbytes of rpm files (e.g. xfree86).

Bruce

Re: RPM's

Kyle D. Harris — Thu, 12 Feb 2004 11:02:08 GMT

hmm so far it's been about 10 min since i re-tried the command and still no prompt back yet. It's about 7 Rpm's it's installing.. or is supposed to be!

Re: RPM's

Jerome Henry — Thu, 12 Feb 2004 11:05:07 GMT

That's why I like 'vh' options.. they let you check the install process percentage...
10 mn could be possible, but trying on my 2.4 Ghz took for the same packages aroung 4 mn...

J

Re: RPM's

Kyle D. Harris — Thu, 12 Feb 2004 11:13:44 GMT

i just tried it with the -ivh options... how do you check the percentages?

Re: RPM's

Claudio Cilloni — Thu, 12 Feb 2004 11:27:23 GMT

Are you running Redhat 9? Sometimes happens that the rpm system hangs. I don't know why, and I still haven't solved this problem. Reboot your machine, and retry the rpm -ivh command. Should work.

hth,
Claudio

Re: RPM's

Martin P.J. Zinser — Thu, 12 Feb 2004 11:30:40 GMT

Hello,

what you really need is the server and the client part. Bench really is only required if you want to benchmark your own system and compare how well e.g. Oracle does against MySQL.

10 min for the installation seems to be too long. Try to install server alone and see how this works. Then go on with client and the rest.

Greetings, Martin

Re: RPM's

Bruce Copeland — Thu, 12 Feb 2004 11:30:55 GMT

Percentages and hatchmarks should show up on the screen fairly soon after you start. If you're not getting to that stage, something funky is going on. Do you know for sure that a (possibly more recent) version of mysql wasn't already installed? If you use the rpm -i to install, rpm will attempt to install even if there's actually more recent packages already installed. That can sometimes cause pretty big headaches. Usually you still get some type of feedback from the rpm program, but I can imagine where things could get confused and cause rpm to hang. I always do rpm -q package-name or rpm -qa | grep package-base-name (in your case probably 'mysql') before I install or update to find out for sure what is already on the system.

Another headache with mysql is that some older packages were called MySQL, whereas newer ones are named mysql. I recall finding both MySQL and mysql installed on one of my servers after upgrading from RH 7.2 to RH 8. That happened during the RedHat installation itself. I don't know what would occur if you tried the same thing directly using the rpm program. The RH installers often turn off quite a bit of dependency checking during the installation of rpm packages.

Bruce

Re: RPM's

Paul Cross_1 — Thu, 12 Feb 2004 12:00:53 GMT

The reason I use rpm -Uvh mysql* is exactly so that rpm worries about dependencies, not me. I use the -U just in case there is a previous version installed (rpm will upgrade with -U, fail with -i). i use -vh for progress report with hashes...

Re: RPM's

Kyle D. Harris — Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:02:11 GMT

Claudio, yes it is indeed hanging on that command. I'll try rebooting. Thanks.

Re: RPM's

Kyle D. Harris — Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:16:48 GMT

I got a Perl-DBI is needed by Mysql-bench dependency but i removed the Bench since i probly won't even need it and the rest of the install was Golden... Thanks for the help Guys!

Kyle