What is best way to install MySQL 4.1?

[John Swartzentruber]

On 2/14/2005 3:39 PM Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 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

What will this do to rpms that depend on the mysql-3.23 rpm?

For that matter, how do I determine what depends on a package? I did a 
"man yum" and a "man rpm", but I didn't see what I was looking for (I 
did find the reverse). Is there a good way to determine in advance what 
a "yum remove" will do without having it actually remove a package and 
all packages that depend on it?

Thanks for your help.