This is an FAQ. Just force the install, ignoring dependencies. --nodeps, I
think, is the switch. This will be fixed with the next Mysql version.
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From: "kentj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Neil Zanella" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "MySQL Mailing List"
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Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 0:28
Subject: Re: RPMS are faulty
> I am running SuSe 7.0 and have had the same experience. I think that I
> remember reading in the SuSE manual about some standard Linux directory
> structure which they are using. I wonder if this is a recent Linux
standard
> and MYSql.RPm has not
> been updated to use this structure. I do not find the files where the
books
> and manuals tell me to find them. I find them else
> where and I did not mess with the install.
>
> Neil Zanella wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am running Red Hat Linux 6.2 which is supposedly the platform on
> > which the latest MySQL RPMs were built. However there are problems
> > when I try to install the package even though I follow the instructions
> > in the manual:
> >
> > [root@tulip /tmp]# rpm -i MySQL-3.23.30-1.i386.rpm
> > error: failed dependencies:
> > /usr/bin/perl5 is needed by MySQL-3.23.30-1
> > [root@tulip /tmp]# rpm -q perl
> > perl-5.00503-10
> > [root@tulip /tmp]# ls /usr/bin/perl
> > /usr/bin/perl
> > [root@tulip /tmp]# ls /usr/bin/perl5
> > ls: /usr/bin/perl5: No such file or directory
> > [root@tulip /tmp]#
> >
> > As you can see perl 5 is installed and Red Hat's installation script did
> > not create a symbolic links to /usr/bin/perl5 to /usr/bin/perl so why
> > should the MySQL RPMs complain about it? Even if I create the link
> > manually the Red Hat RPM database is not updated when I do so.
> > This makes the MySQL RPMs defective if not unusable.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Neil
> >
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