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How To Install MySQL 5.0 On RHEL 4
RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 comes with MySQL 4, so it needed to be upgraded. I did it the following way. I am not responsible for anything that happens if you follow these instructions, so please understand what they do!
Make sure to replace the wget RPM downloads with the correct RPMs for your platform! These ones are for AMD/Intel 64 bit (non Itanium)..
service mysqld stop cd ~ mkdir mysql cd mysql wget http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-5.0/MySQL-server-standard-5.0.22-0.rhel4.x86_64.rpm/from/http://mirror.x10.com/mirror/mysql/ wget http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-5.0/MySQL-client-standard-5.0.22-0.rhel4.x86_64.rpm/from/http://mirror.x10.com/mirror/mysql/ wget http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-5.0/MySQL-shared-standard-5.0.22-0.rhel4.x86_64.rpm/from/http://mirror.x10.com/mirror/mysql/ wget http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-5.0/MySQL-devel-standard-5.0.22-0.rhel4.x86_64.rpm/from/http://mirror.x10.com/mirror/mysql/ rpm -Uvh --nodeps MySQL-server-standard-5.0.22-0.rhel4.x86_64.rpm rpm -Uvh MySQL-client-standard-5.0.22-0.rhel4.x86_64.rpm rpm -Uvh MySQL-shared-standard-5.0.22-0.rhel4.x86_64.rpm rpm -Uvh MySQL-devel-standard-5.0.22-0.rhel4.x86_64.rpm nano -w /etc/my.cnf # Comment out the base-dir line under [mysqld.server] - RHEL 4 / MySQL bug adduser mysql chown -R mysql:mysql /var/run/mysqld chown -R mysql:mysql /var/lib/mysql service mysql start mysql
