Re: [Dorset] Best Way of Installing Old Version of MySQL Client

2023-07-13 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via dorset
Hi Terry, At the time, I didn't have to do anything for the pis to be compatible, because the mysql client provided worked with the database on the NAS box. I believe incompatibility would start to be a problem if we updated Raspberry Pi OS as well, but with the current version all seems fine.

Re: [Dorset] Best Way of Installing Old Version of MySQL Client

2023-07-13 Thread Terry Coles
Thanks everyone for your suggestions. On 13/07/2023 10:07, Ralph Corderoy wrote: A package manager understands dependencies between packages. You've cherry-picked one package and not handled its dependencies. The executable isn't self-contained. It can refer to other object files of

Re: [Dorset] Best Way of Installing Old Version of MySQL Client

2023-07-13 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, > Originally, I was getting a problem owing to a mismatch > between the Version on the server (5.1.56) and the version provided by > Ubuntu 23.04 (8.033). I uninstalled the package mysql-client-8.0, and > downloaded MySQL-client-5.1.56-1.glibc23.x86_64.rpm from the MySQL > website,

Re: [Dorset] Best Way of Installing Old Version of MySQL Client

2023-07-13 Thread Hugh Frater
This is indeed the way that .so files work. A symlink from the current version, to the non-versioned, and linked, library. On Thu, 13 Jul 2023 at 09:14, Victor Churchill wrote: > My recollection (a bit hazy, and I don't have a machine to hand to check) > is that under /usr/lib you should find

Re: [Dorset] Best Way of Installing Old Version of MySQL Client

2023-07-13 Thread Hugh Frater
Have you done an slocate libncurses* to see if any of the ncurses libraries are lurking on your system? On Thu, 13 Jul 2023 at 08:38, Terry Coles wrote: > Hi, > > With Hamish's help, I've got as far as logging into the WMT Database > over ssh; it appears that my keys didn't match. > > I'm now

Re: [Dorset] Best Way of Installing Old Version of MySQL Client

2023-07-13 Thread Victor Churchill
My recollection (a bit hazy, and I don't have a machine to hand to check) is that under /usr/lib you should find a file libncursesw.so. and another file libncursesw.so that is a symlink the missing file: libncursesw.so.4.perhaps libncursesw.so -> libncursesw.so.5 and that your client is looking

[Dorset] Best Way of Installing Old Version of MySQL Client

2023-07-13 Thread Terry Coles
Hi, With Hamish's help, I've got as far as logging into the WMT Database over ssh; it appears that my keys didn't match. I'm now back to trying to access the database using the MySQL Client in a shell.  Originally, I was getting a problem owing to a mismatch between the Version on the