FC4 installed as server

Kevin Raber ktr at mtu.edu
Wed Mar 8 22:25:36 UTC 2006



Ted Potter wrote:
>> Ted Potter wrote:
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> I installed FC4 using the server option during the install. This machine
>>> will be used for apache/mysql/php. I need to install
>>> mysql 5.0 server and client. I have the instructions for that but trying
>>> to install the src-rpm for mysqlserver 5 gives me
>>>
>>> error: cannot create %sourcedir /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
>>>
>>> I assume because I did not install the rpm source during the install of FC4
>>>
>>> Can someone point me to how to install these from the cd's I have or
>>> what to do ?
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 3/8/06, Steve Rieger <riegersteve at gmail.com> wrote:
>    how did you attempt to install this srpm ?
>> Steve Rieger
>> 310-339-4355      (cell)
>> 3394355 at gmail.com (pager)
> 
> 
> just like this:
> 
> [root at localhost /]# rpm -v -i MySQL-5.0.18-0.src.rpm
> error: cannot create %sourcedir /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
> 
> and of course /usr/src is empty.
> 
> thanks !
> 

how about:

mkdir /usr/src/redhat
rpm -v -i MySQL-5.0.18-0.src.rpm

?

Kevin Raber




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