[CLUE-Tech] installing mysql on Redhat 8.0

[Jed S. Baer]

On Mon, 28 Apr 2003 12:18:03 -0600
"Ed Young" <ejy at summitbid.com> wrote:

> I ran rpm -qli mysql and it returned with a bunch of files in locations
> that do not exist on this system. Does it query some database that may
> or may not reflect the reality of this system?

Well, I've never tried -qli. Using 'rpm -qpl {rpm-file-name}' will list
the the files (including full path for installation) in the package.
Sounds like the qli does similar.

I'm not aware that this sort of query does anything but read the rpm
file(s), and print out what's in them.

> I  tried to remove the mysql package and got  dependency errors from
> mysql-server and perl-DBD-MySQL. When I tried to rpm -e mysql-server the
> rpm call never returned. ctrl-c does nothing to stop it.

Yea, you'll have to remove and resinstall dependencies. You can do this
with a single command:

rpm -e mysql mysql-server perl-DBD-MySQL.

Then you can reinstall with the same package list. If you do remove these
three (and any other dependent packages), you'll get some errors along the
lines of 'can't remove {filename}', since the files aren't on your system.

Or, you can try to just reinstall, using:

rpm -i --replacepkgs {list of rpm files}

> At this point I'm guessing the rpm "database" system is corrupted
> (Berkely DB?).

I don't see any evidence of that so far.

> I can't conclude anything now except that the package management is
> whacked on this system, despite the little check mark in the toolbar
> assuring me I'm"up2date".

Well, OK, yes it sounds as if your RPM database doesn't match what's
actually on the disk, but the reinstall might fix that. You might want to
look at the verify functions of the rpm command. I haven't messed with
those, so the man page will give you more info there than I can.

> Is this someone's way of telling me to go back to Debian?

I certainly won't argue that -- either way. There are good/bad reasons for
staying or switching, regardless of what distro one uses. I have no
troubles with MySQL on my current RH8.0 system. And rpm dependency hell
isn't something I can blame on RH right now either. The only dependency
problems I've had recently are just that various packagers either don't
document, on their websites, what the dependencies are, or don't document
them properly. And one case (gmplayer) where the packager goofed in the
dependency checks.

jed
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