Is there a reason you're not using RHN to pull packages? 5.0.45 is provided by RHN and would only require a yum install mysql-server. Far less headaches than you've apparently gone through. Rob Marti -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of lonetwin Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 4:29 AM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: perl dbi and dbd issue Everyone, Turns out that the mysql package available from mysql.com for rhel5 doesn't really work out of the box. I removed this package, and downloaded the one available from rpmbone.net...and things went off smoothly. Thank you, lonetwin On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:36 AM, lonetwin <lonetwins@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thank you everyone. > > I installed the rpm's for the perl-dbi., perl-dbd and other dependencies > and was able to install mysql-server-..rpm > However one final problem i see is that, if i do : > # rpm -qa|grep mysql > > it does not show the mysql-5.0.45 as installed. > > Also, mysqladmin is not present. > > Where am i going wrong ?? Any idea. > > Thanks in advance, > lonetwins > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list