Islam, Sharif wrote:

> I had 3.23.41 installed. It came with Rh7.2. I had some mistakes in
initial
> start up . So I thought i would reinstall it. I downloaded the rpm for
> 3.23.47. And ran the rpm installation. 


>You got the 3.23.47 RPM from MySQL's site, I presume? That RPM is not an 

Yes

>upgrade for a RedHat RPM (RedHat packages MySQL differently from the MySQL 
>AB folks - something to do with the Linux "file system layout standard"). 
>The names are also different - "mysql" for Redhat vs "MySQL" for the MySQL 
>image.

>You'll have to:

>* rpm -e the Red Hat package ("mysql").
it says mysql not installed. 

>* Do another "rpm -Uvh" of the MySQL package to be sure that no common 
>component got blasted.

It says
package MySQL-3.23.47-1 is already installed

>* Set up the /etc/init.d stuff if needed to start mysql at system boot.


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