Error Installing mysql on Fedora2

[Mark Sargent]

David Hoffman wrote:

>On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 14:03:05 +0900, Mark Sargent
><powderkeg at snow.email.ne.jp> wrote:
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>>Scot L. Harris wrote:
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>>>On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 23:14, Mark Sargent wrote:
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>>>>Hi All,
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>>>>What have I done wrong here.? Installed mysql via YUM(1st mistake.?).
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>I don't think it has anything to do with how you installed it or
>SELinux. I think it has more to do with the fact that you only
>installed the mysql CLIENT and not the server. You can fire up the
>client all you want, but if you don't have a server running there is
>nothing to connect to.
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>You should have no problem installing from YUM, but instead of just
>installing the mysql package, look for another one called
>mysql-server. Install that one too and you should get better results.
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Hi All,

thanx, David, that's good to know. I went and installed the latest via 
.tar.gz file. Wanna learn the manual install procedure, anyway. Cheers.

Mark Sargent.