What is best way to install MySQL 4.1?

[Rahul Sundaram]

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:31:22 -0500, John Swartzentruber
<nospam2 at mcswartz.org> wrote:
> I think this is a more general question than just MySQL, so I'm asking
> it here.
> 
> I am running FC3, which comes with MySQL 3.23. I would like to run a
> more recent version. I tried updating to version 4.1 using yum and the
> fedora-devel repository, but after downloading lots of updates and
> dependencies, it still ended up with an incompatibility and didn't do
> the update.

remove the fedora provided mysql rpms and use the ones provided by mysql.com

> Similarly, what are the dangers of keeping the fedora-devel repository
> enabled? Once it updates things from that repository, can I go back?

going back would be very hard to do. not advisable 

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Regards,
Rahul Sundaram