hey all,
Trying to install Mysql-Administrator (the GUI) on my Red Hat 9 and am getting an error when it says it can't find :
glibc.2 libxml2.0 >=2.6.2
Saying that the libxml I have is only 2.5.4.
I've searched the internet for any newer versions for my distro. On rpmfind, the latest they have is, of course, 2.5.4.
I realize that RH9 is old, being replaced by Fedora, but does anyone know where I can get the appropriate version of the libxml. Or, am I wasting my time, and so is there a RH9 gui fvor MySQl anyone could recommend??

Thx

Check out here for generic RPM's from the developer from http://www.xmlsoft.org at ftp://xmlsoft.org/ . If it requires many newer rpms then try rebuild the src.rpm. Download the needed *.src.rpm. Once downloaded run the command ' rpmbuild --rebuild --recompile <name_of_src_rpm>. If it finishes with no errors the rebuilt rpm will be in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386.

Example : rpmbuild --rebuild --recompile libxml2-2.6.11-1.src.rpm

Also a quick check shows the rpm at dags. http://apt.sw.be/redhat/9/en/i386/RPMS.dag/
Are you using yum or apt/synaptics to check for updates. If using apt/synaptics you can add this to your repos and update it through synaptic. If it needs other rpms then it should also get them from dags as well. Can be found here at
http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/redhat/9/apt/
http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrp...at/9/synaptic/
It sets up basic repos.

You can do it manually and download the new libxml2 and run the command
rpm -Uvh *.rpm --test.
If no errors then remove the --test. If it complains then download other rpms from dags site and keep trying. Use of apt/synaptics would be easier and faster.

Edit:
Went to the site for the gui and they have a src.rpm. Might try to rebuild it to match your current rpm database. Some issues with rpms is when built on a machine and is built using a newer version of an rpm does not always mean it requires it. So rebuilding to match your curent configuration might be all it takes. It is usually based on the vendors .spec file which is often included in the source file to build a src.rpms and rpms from the source.
Edit:

Hope this helps.
Brian1

Thanks! I'll try those things.

I ran into the same problem for redhat 7.3. The problem is that version for the dag packages are 2.6.16-1.0 which you know and I know is > than 2.6.2. The problem is most configure scripts will still complain because they do version checks with ascii-order so it will always look at 16 being < than 2. this could be distro-version dependent behavior though, but if it isn't you'll need to figure out how to bypass this behavior when running configure. I said screw it since I've already got the old version of mysqlcc.