Greetings

I have a fresh install of RedHat ES 3 that came with the new server. mysqld is not in /etc/init.d or anywhere else on the system. I'm guessing it's a flaw in the install. To fix the problem, I have download the rpms for mysql v5 from their website. rpm -Uhv package fails because there is apparently a library version conflict:

[root@emperor root]# rpm -Uhv MySQL-server-community-5.0.45-0.rhel3.x86_64.rpm
warning: MySQL-server-community-5.0.45-0.rhel3.x86_64.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 5072e1f5
error: Failed dependencies:
libmysqlclient.so.10()(64bit) is needed by (installed) perl-DBD-MySQL-2.1021-3
libmysqlclient.so.10()(64bit) is needed by (installed) mod_auth_mysql-20030510-2.ent
libmysqlclient.so.10()(64bit) is needed by (installed) php-mysql-4.3.2-25.ent
libmysqlclient.so.10()(64bit) is needed by (installed) libdbi-dbd-mysql-0.6.5-5
libmysqlclient.so.10()(64bit) is needed by (installed) MySQL-python-0.9.1-6
libmysqlclient.so.10()(64bit) is needed by (installed) MyODBC-2.50.39-12.1
libmysqlclient.so.10()(64bit) is needed by (installed) qt-MySQL-3.1.2-13.4

I tried to uninstall the dependancies to upgrade later and get message like:

[root@emperor root]# rpm --erase perl-DBD-MySQL-2.1021-3
error: Failed dependencies:
perl-DBD-MySQL is needed by (installed) mysql-3.23.58-16.RHEL3.1

which indicates a circular dependancy.

Is the solution as simple as using --force? Anybody have any ideas?

Thanks

Mike

Try

This didn't work, but trying a few things on the man page I found that this works:

rpm -e --allmatches --nodeps mysql-....

I don't know how/why it was in there twice but allmatches gets them all. nodeps deletes it whether or not there are dependancies. I don't know yet if this makes it more broken than it was, but it's a way forward.

Thanks

Mike