On Thursday 15 April 2004 06:41 pm, Ben Yau wrote:
> Hi everybody
>
> I did a quick search on the mailing list archive for "libmysql install" but
> no mathces so hopefully this hasn't been asked yet (for awhile at least).
>
> I want to install mysql (mostly for client purposes) and am running into a
> "chicken and egg" problem.
>
> [root@netmanage01 src]# rpm -i mysql-3.23.58-1.80.i386.rpm
> error: Failed dependencies:
> perl-DBD-MySQL is needed by mysql-3.23.58-1.80
>
> so I try to install perl-DBD-MySQL
>
> [root@netmanage01 src]# rpm -i perl-DBD-MySQL-2.1017-3.i386.rpm
> error: Failed dependencies:
> libmysqlclient.so.10 is needed by perl-DBD-MySQL-2.1017-3
For things like this, if you have dependency and such, the easiest and safest
way is to install all of the RPMs and the dependancies in one line. So in
your case, this would be:
#> rpm -ivh mysql-3.23.58-1.80.i386.rpm perl-DBD-MySQL-2.1017-3.i386.rpm
RPM then can figure out what it needs to do.
RDB
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