Thank you!
Sorry for my frustration, but I have been wrestling with this for a
week. In that time, I have neither seen meaningful suggestions, nor
have I seen help for a few others with similar problems.
I would still like to see a list of warnings that would alert me to
pitfalls and other dan
You shouldn't have to reinstall Linux, just uninstall the old RPM, or
delete the old version which was installed from source, and install the
new version if it be from RPM or whatever. There is no way that the
manual could cover every installation medium that exists (RPM, tar, DEB,
BSD Ports tree
BUG: Telling me I "shouldn't have done" something, not even mentioned
in the manual, does not help me fix the problem.
BUG: Having to completely reinstall the operating system (Linux) in
order to repair problems with a mysql install. Or does someone
actually have any recommendations on this?
I wish I could say that helped, Sean.
I still don't know if I should try a specific command to fix things,
or move/remove a specific file first, or completely reinstall Linux
and start from scratch. The last option is least desirable, as I will
have the most things to reconstruct on the system.
It sounds like the problem is that you originally installed from RPM and
later installed from source, or vice versa. RPMs often use a different
file layout than source distributions, this is one reason why I always
install software that I consider system critical from source, so that
there are no
