we are asking you plenty of questions and you are not bothering to answer them. Just crudely pasting that same error again and again will never help you.

I have asked you about yum, I have asked you about RHN, if you can't answer these basic questions, I can't help you.

Hi acid_kewpie,

Please see the below info

i think mysql is already installed , can u plz help me to do next?

right, so that's the client installed. now install the server "yum install mysql-server"

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executed the command
and last lines of these commands are

what is next?

Set the mysql root password etc. Read some documentation, such as the links I provided.

Have you checked that MySQL is installed?

Hi acid_kewpie,

Thanks a lot , its working :-)

Mysql is installed finally.

I'd like to think that this is a joke, but it's not is it? If you can't even read the other replies, why bother?

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As others have said, your MySQL server isn't running so the client mysql program cannot connect. Why are you trying to install RPM files manually? You've also ignored some pretty useful advice further up, namely acid_kewpie's post. Simply repeating your first post doesn't actually help anyone...especially when you've given no indication that you're tried any of the suggestions posted.

Forget using these RPMs, as they clearly don't install and as such, you can't start the server. Just run "yum install mysql" and then "service mysqld start" and connect with "mysql".

erm... he said it's all working now...

mysql is installed on my server that is fine.

but i am having lot of question related to this.

first of all i am really new to this.

1)i had given the task to install mysql. but i dont know what are the things already availabale on server i didnt really think abt that. i thought that i have to start from the base


2) so simply i have take two rpm files that is server and client.rpm

3) searched google to install this rpm and i got error which i have posted earlier. but i found that theirs is something earlier installed/any file availble .


and finally using acids help i have installed this.

but i am still having an doubt what are the files available initilly so that i have just run the two commands that is "yum install mysql-server" and "yum install mysql" and mysql is installed .


i want to know what is the use of my two files

1)MySQL-client-5.5.11-1.rhel5.x86_64.rpm
2)MySQL-server-5.5.11-1.rhel5.x86_64.rpm

and rpm -ivh MySQL-client-5.5.11-1.rhel5.x86_64.rpm


i am not cleared with this things . Please help me to clear this things

those files are of no use at all. they are for rhel5, whilst you are apparently running rhel6, therefore they should not even install.

run this:

rpm -qa | grep -i mysql

and you'll see everything installed with "mysql" in the name for clarity.

you can also run

rpm -ql mysql-server

to see what files are in that package which are now on your system.

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All "yum" does is install *compatible* RPM files from a remote software repository whilst handling all the inter-package dependency problems. I'd only attempt to use stand-alone RPM files if the program I wanted to install is not available from the official yum repositories and is slightly more preferable than compiling from source.

Ohh, I'm sorry for that. I think I haven't seen the last post. Sorry!