MYSQL installation

[Binu_5]

Hi

Iam facing problem in installing MYSQL from a
linux 9 CD
First of all Iam not able to mount the CD
using mount -r -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

Can any body help me to install MYSQL from
Linux CD

Thanks
Binu

[Claudio Cilloni]

could you tell the error message?

[Alex Lavrov.]

Yep, some more info will be very usefull.

And may I ask why do you want to install it from linux 9 CD? It's probably a very old version. MySQL has two licenses, GPL and Commercial, it means that you can download a free lates version of MySQL for almost every platform from their site:

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/index.html


Alex.

[renarios]

Hi Binu,

What does your syslog say about the mount request? (see /var/log/messages)

Cheers,

Renarios

[Binu_5]

Hi

Here in our office they want it from
CD so I copied folloing RPMs from CD

rwxrwxrwx 1 binuv users 259771 May 12 06:31 httpd_de.rpm
-rwxrwxrwx 1 binuv users 55272 May 12 06:31 myodbc_2.rpm
-rwxrwxrwx 1 binuv users 5247012 May 12 06:31 mysql_3_.rpm
-rwxrwxrwx 1 binuv users 580038 May 12 06:31 mysql_de.rpm
-rwxrwxrwx 1 binuv users 92549 May 12 06:31 mysql_py.rpm
-rwxrwxrwx 1 binuv users 1119094 May 12 06:31 mysql_se.rpm

From her her how can I install Mysql..

Thanks
Binu

[Gopi Sekar]

if you really dont worry about the space then install all packages starting with mysql :)

you dont have to install httpd and myodbc rpms.

you can decide which one to install by finding out each rpm's purpose. run rpm -qpi . it will list the package name, version and purpose of it. based on it you can install that rpm by

rpm -ivh

ofcourse installation of an package might require anoter package to be installed, in which case you have to install that also.

just to do installation of all mysql rpms in one shot which will take care of dependencies within it, execute:

rpm -ivh mysql*.rpm

Regards,
Gopi

[Alex Lavrov.]

Are you 100% sure you want to install these? I'm not sure if this version even supported ....

[Karsten Breivik_1]

If you install this, it could be an idea to do an

# up2date -ui

as root to patch the system afterwards. If I remember right, the RH 9.0 also had problems running up2date after RedHat updated their certificates a year ago. See https://rhn.redhat.com/help/latest-up2date.pxt for fix.

[Karsten Breivik_1]

... and also notice that if the guys in the office really wants the version from the cd, it may be because they are interested in the 3.2.x version of MySQL. This version was the production version for a long time. The current version is 4.x in which some things have changed (table formats, password algorithms, etc). If you opt to install one of the 4.x versions, you might have problems getting some clients to work. If you don't feel like telling the guys to "get current", installing the compability packages from MySQL should remedy this and make most 3.2.x based clients work with the 4.x database.

[Stuart Browne]

Well, that's not entirely accurate.

MySQL 3.23.xx is the old, stable series. It's currently up to sub-version 58 as RPM releases for both RHE and FC.

v4.1.x is the current version, but it isn't all that widely distributed at this stage. Whilst it's listed as the current release series, it's still under heavy development, with features constantly evolving (yay! stored procs and triggers are finally here! So is MySQL's Cluster solution.. really quite interesting implementation! :).

v5.0.x is the bleeding-edge development.

RH9 is distributed with 3.23.54a-11 (available through their FTP as well if needed), but is up to eratta 3.23.58-1.9.

If you want to get RH9 release RPM's, I suggest you download the following files:

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/9/en/os/i386/mysql-3.23.58-1.9.i386.rpm ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/9/en/os/i386/mysql-devel-3.23.58-1.9.i386.rpm ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/9/en/os/i386/mysql-server-3.23.58-1.9.i386.rpm

If you intend to use PHP or Perl's DBI or Python to access the MySQL databases, then also update the appropraite packages.