Re: RPMS are faulty

2001-01-11 Thread Neil Zanella
The books you are using are probably outdated as installation instructions tend to change from release to release. Installation instructions are perhaps one thing that should not be put in a book. Rather a book should tell you where to find the installation instructions. The MySQL RPMS do adhere

Re: RPMS are faulty

2001-01-11 Thread Rolf Hopkins
ailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 0:28 Subject: Re: RPMS are faulty > I am running SuSe 7.0 and have had the same experience. I think that I > remember reading in the SuSE manual about some standard Linux directory > structure which they are

Re: RPMS are faulty

2001-01-11 Thread kentj
I am running SuSe 7.0 and have had the same experience. I think that I remember reading in the SuSE manual about some standard Linux directory structure which they are using. I wonder if this is a recent Linux standard and MYSql.RPm has not been updated to use this structure. I do not find the fil

Re: MySQL manual: another suggestion was: RPMS are faulty

2001-01-10 Thread Neil Zanella
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Michael A. Peters wrote: > Try rpm --nodeps -Uh MySQL-3.23.30-1.i386.rpm > > I doubt that MySQL is dependant upon that particular file existing, if > it wants perl (for benchmark package??) your local perl should work > fine. If MySQL doesn't work- you can remove it, rpm -e

RPMS are faulty

2001-01-10 Thread Neil Zanella
Hello, I am running Red Hat Linux 6.2 which is supposedly the platform on which the latest MySQL RPMs were built. However there are problems when I try to install the package even though I follow the instructions in the manual: [root@tulip /tmp]# rpm -i MySQL-3.23.30-1.i386.rpm error: failed d