I need to run a software (closed source as I don't have access to source code) which runs fine on FC5 and previous releases. This software requires mysqlclient10 package (which was packaged in mysqlclient10-3.23.58-9.2.i386.rpm). This rpm was available for fc5, but I didn't find this package for fc 9.
I tried to install FC5 package in FC9 but the software performance is no good.

My questions are:

(1) Does mysqlclient10 exist in Fc 9?

(2) Might I patch this problem with a symlink to libmysqlclient.so.15.0.0? This way:

ln -s /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.15.0.0 /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.10.0.0


Thanks in advance,
Matías

Though I'm no expert, but I've been using mysql for some time and from my exp what I can guess is that this client is not available by default , you may need to get/install it by yourself. The reason for a low performance might be because the client name that you mentioned was created using the MySQL version 3.23.58 and you tried to run it with the upgraded version of mysql in FC9. Lets wait for other enlightened answers.