reinstall mysql or rebuild mysql??

dsiguy · 07-11-2003, 06:23 PM

I do not have any info i need to keep so i figured that I could rebuild / uninstall and restall / reinstall mysql.

Is there a certain way I should go about this.

Thanks for your help

cli_man · 07-11-2003, 11:07 PM

Did you install mysql from a rpm or was it installed with the system or what? if you have redhat you can pull up a terminal and type in 'rpm -qa > rpm.txt' Then you cat type in 'cat rpm.txt' to see if you see anything about mysql in there if there is then all you have to do is type in 'rpm -e mysql-something' that will remove the mysql program then you could just delete the mysql data directory.

dsiguy · 07-14-2003, 02:19 PM

I did a complete install and mysql was included.

mysql is listed in the 'cat rpm.txt' several times

mysql-devel-3.23.52-3
mysql-server-3.23.52-3
php-mysql-3.0.14-8

do I just need to do the rpm -e thing on just the

mysql-server

then what do I do to reinstall that

Thanks

cli_man · 07-15-2003, 08:11 AM

Yes you can do a rpm -e, I would do the devel first then the server. The php-mysql you should be able to leave, when you remove mysql I think it will leave the databases on the drive, on my redhat machines done from rpm install you just have to delete the /var/lib/mysql directory.

Then you can just reinstall the new rpm's if you want to get mysql back up and running