MySql 4.0 upgrade

[Erik Espinoza]

I would recommend that everyone in this thread read this little tidbit
on getting MySQL 4 on Fedora Core 2.

http://fedoranews.org/contributors/tony_smith/mysql/

I did this on a Whitebox install and an FC2 install, and it was perfect.

Thanks,
Erik

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 18:16:20 +0100, Dave Pawson <david at dpawson.co.uk> wrote:
> 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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