Hi list, I'm trying to install MySQL 5.0.24a RHEL RPM on a Centos Linux VPS box.
"uname -a" output on this box: Linux my.host.com 2.6.9-022stab078.14-enterprise #1 SMP Wed Jul 19 14:35:02 MSD 2006 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux It already has MySQL 4.1 RHEL installed on it - I checked this with "rpm -q mysql", which shows: mysql-4.1.20-1.RHEL4.1 The 4.1 install came by with the box, probably (not sure but maybe able to find out from the previous administrator or the hosting provider). I don't want to uninstall the 4.1 if I can help it. Reason: though I'm fairly comfortable with Linux software installations in general, I haven't installed MySQL before, and so not sure of all the files that get installed, and their locations, particularly into other directories than the base installation directory (e.g. there is a file called my.cnf in /etc). So not sure if all the files installed with 4.1 will be properly removed if I uninstall 4.1, and if they don't, it may create conflicts; e.g. some config file of 4.1might get used when I try to run 5.0 after installing it, and this might lead to strange errors. So I want to install MySQL 5.0 into a different location. That is why I used the --prefix option in the install command that I used: rpm --install --test --hash --verbose --prefix /root/mysql5.0rhel4 MySQL-server-standard-5.0.24a-0.rhel4.i386.rpm When I run the above command (as root), I get this error message: warning: MySQL-server-standard-5.0.24a-0.rhel4.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 5072e1f5 error: package MySQL-server-standard is not relocatable Does this mean that this RPM can only be installed in the standard/default location? Is there any way or any other kind of package (e.g. not an RPM but a tar.gz) that will work - for the binary package, I mean - such that it will allow me to install MySQL into some base location (directory) specified by me? Otherwise I can install MySQL from the source tarball which I've already downloaded, but thought to avoid that route if possible, as I suspect it might take some time (not sure). This is because I just previously installed the GNU C++ compiler (g++) on the box, which I had to do because I had tried to install MySQL from the source tarball earlier and got a message "C++ compiler fails sanity check", and Googling for that message, indicated that the C++ compiler was not installed on the system - my guess is that the C++ compiler is not there by default on the box because it is a VPS, so they want to minimize the disk space used by default. So I downloaded and installed the g++ compiler. It worked ok - I wrote a short C++ test program, could compile and run it. So the reason I want to avoid installing MySQL from source, is because the C++ compiler build+install, took a good amount of time, over 3.5 hours, probably because it compiles hundreds of small source files, and so does a lot of file I/O, and my client doesn't want to spend a lot of time on the install (the project is on a tight schedule). Thanks for any help or pointers. Vasudev Ram http://www.dancingbison.com 10.times say "Truly rural"
