mysql rpm install: Didn't find /usr/libexec/mysqld
 

i'm trying to install slooze on my apache webserver using the mysql option. when i try to install the mysql-3.23.54a-3.72.i386.rpm for redhat 7.2 i get no error messages. when i try to initialize the grant tables using
mysql_install_db
i get the following error message
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# /usr/bin/mysql_install_db
Didn't find /usr/libexec/mysqld
You should do a 'make install' before executing this script
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i suspect that the problem is associatied with a separate install of mysql that came packaged with ezpublish 2.7. does anyone have any ideas on how to solve this problem?

thanks.

most mysql rpm installed are split into a number of files e.g. mysql-server mysql and mysql-client afaik. make sure you're installing the right ones, assuming that you want this. how does this other version come into the equation?

I guess i assume that this is a dependency issue. i thought that the other install of mysql (which was part of a custom package by ezpublish) might fake out the rpm i'm installing by showing a dependency as being fulfilled but putting the dependency "libexec" in an unexpected place (the ezpublish puts every thing under /opt.

I guess the question i have is why am i getting this error? The rpm i installed said that it included the basic server/client install. it seems i'm missing something, however, when i try to initialize the grant tables, because i get the persistent error message (even though the install otherwise looks complete). Are you suggesting that I am missing libmysqlclient.so.10 ? Would that explain the error?

The rpm says
Provides

mysql
libmysqlclient.so.10

Requires

/sbin/ldconfig
/sbin/install-info
grep
fileutils
chkconfig
bash >= 2.0
/bin/sh
/bin/sh
/bin/sh
/bin/sh
/usr/bin/perl
libcrypt.so.1
libc.so.6
libm.so.6
libmysqlclient.so.10
libncurses.so.5
libnsl.so.1
libpthread.so.0
libreadline.so.4
libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3
libz.so.1