Hi, I have Downloaded Binary distribution and when I runned /usr/local/mysql/configure it told me that I did not needed to do that, that is a binary distribution and that it was going to start the mysqld for me along with some initialization tables or data from /usr/local/mysql/data. But when I tried to issue the command /usr/local/mysql//bin/mysqladmin version it gives me this output: mysqladmin:connect to server at 'localhost' failed error: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' I went to /tmp and the file was not there. Also when I tried to issue the command: /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql with any option (i.e. mysql --host=localhost) it gives me the following errors: mysql error in loading shared libraries:libncurses.so.4:cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory. But the mysqld deamon is up and running. The output of ps -ef is the following: /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld --basedir=/usr/local/mysql --datadir=/usr/local/mysq l/data --user=root --pid-file=/usr/local/mysql/data/sparky.pid --skip-locking 3 of these mysqld are running (with different pids ofcourse) >How-To-Repeat: <code/input/activities to reproduce the problem (multiple lines)> >Fix: <how to correct or work around the problem, if known (multiple lines)> >Submitter-Id: <submitter ID> >Originator: Rene Saenz >Organization: <organization of PR author (multiple lines)> >MySQL support: [none | licence | email support | extended email support ] >Synopsis: <synopsis of the problem (one line)> >Severity: <[ non-critical | serious | critical ] (one line)> >Priority: <[ low | medium | high ] (one line)> >Category: mysql >Class: <[ sw-bug | doc-bug | change-request | support ] (one line)> >Release: mysql-3.23.33 (Official MySQL binary) >Environment: <machine, os, target, libraries (multiple lines)> System: Linux sparky 2.2.17 #1 Tue Jul 4 13:15:34 EDT 2000 sparc unknown Architecture: sparc Some paths: /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/make /usr/bin/gcc /usr/bin/cc GCC: Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-linux/2.95.2/specs gcc version 2.95.2 20000220 (Debian GNU/Linux) Compilation info: CC='gcc' CFLAGS='-O3 ' CXX='gcc' CXXFLAGS='-O3 -felide-con structors -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti' LDFLAGS='' LIBC: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Oct 31 11:10 /lib/libc.so.6 -> libc-2 .1.3.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 975432 Oct 31 11:10 /lib/libc-2.1.3.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2376096 Jul 7 2000 /usr/lib/libc.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 178 Jul 7 2000 /usr/lib/libc.so Configure command: ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysql '--with-comment=Offici al MySQL binary' --with-extra-charsets=complex --enable-assembler --disable-shared Perl: This is perl, version 5.005_03 built for sparc-linux --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php