MySql 4.0 upgrade
Dave Pawson
david at dpawson.co.uk
Mon Jul 12 17:16:20 UTC 2004
On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 07:54, A. Lanza wrote:
> After installing FC2 i realized that the mysql server version installed
> was 3.x. I wanted to install version 4.0, so i got the rpm
> package from mysql website and i installed it on my system.
>
> Now it seems like mysql server is not running. I get no output for the
> command "ps -A | grep mysql". Also, when i try to connect to mysql
> server using mysql client, i get the following error message:
>
> ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
> '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)
>
> It seems like mysql server does not automatically start when i boot up
> my computer... how can i start it manually? Where in the filesystem does
> mysql server get installed after installing the rpm?
I had the same error until I installed the 'client' package
MySQL-client-4.0.20-0.i386.rpm
Both from mysql.com
HTH DaveP
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