[beginner] How to update mysql with Linux ?

2001-06-11 Thread Francesco Marchioni

Hi all,
I'd like to update my version of Mysql on linux. 
How can I do it so that I don't have two copies of mysql on my machine ?
Do I have to clean up the folder mysql and then install the new version under it?

And what should I download -the source code or the binaries- in order to
update the starting scripts under /etc/rc.d/init.d ?

Thanks a lot
Francesco
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Re: [beginner] How to update mysql with Linux ?

2001-06-11 Thread Gabriele Bartolini

At 09.42 11/06/01 +0200, Francesco Marchioni wrote:
Hi all,
I'd like to update my version of Mysql on linux.
How can I do it so that I don't have two copies of mysql on my machine ?
Do I have to clean up the folder mysql and then install the new version 
under it?

I suggest you to dump all of the database you are interested in, first of 
all. That's pretty easy, just run mysqldump for every db.

And what should I download -the source code or the binaries- in order to
update the starting scripts under /etc/rc.d/init.d ?

It depends on which version you have already installed. Do you use RPMs or 
source code? And, which version of MySQL do you have?

However, you could also write me in italian ... but I guess personally, 
otherwise nobody will understand! :-)

Ciao
-Gabriele

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U.O. Rete Civica - Comune di Prato
Prato - Italia - Europa
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A Supernova is the celestial
equivalent of rm -rf /* with
root permissions.
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