Installing MySQL 4.0 on Slackware 9.0

CFerthorney · October 28th, 2003, 08:30 AM

I am wondering if anyone can help. I am currently trying to install MySQL 4.0 on my Slackware 9.0 machine

I downloaded the necessary RPM files, both the Client and the Server versions. Burned them onto a CD, and Mounted them successfully. They were then copied to /root for decompressing, etc. (I haven't got KDE working yet, so can't easily download on Linux!!!)

I typed the following command:

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rpm -i MySQL-server-4.0.16-0.i386.rpm

just to try and get the server running before I worried about clients.
I got the following error

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error:    Failed dependencies:
          fileutils is needed by MySQL-server-4.0.16-0
          sh-utils is needed by MySQL-server-4.0.16-0
          /bin/sh is needed by MySQL-server-4.0.16-0
          /usr/bin/pearl is needed by MySQL-server-4.0.16-0

the most worrying of the above is /bin.sh. I thought that was installed as part of the OS!

On the web, www.mysql.com told me to try downloading the
MySQL-shared-compat-VERSION, which is did, and got an even longer chain of error messages (Shown below)

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error: Failed Dependencies:
       ld-linux.so.2 is needed by MySQL-shared-compat-4.0.16-0
       libc.so.6 is needed by MySQL-shared-compat-4.0.16-0
       libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by MySQL-shared-compat-4.0.16-0
       libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by MySQL-shared-compat-4.0.16-0
       libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.2) is needed by MySQL-shared-compat-4.0.16-0
       libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3) is needed by MySQL-shared-compat-4.0.16-0
       libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2) is needed by MySQL-shared-compat-4.0.16-0
       libcrypt.so.1 is needed by MySQL-shared-compat-4.0.16-0
       libm.so.6 is needed by MySQL-shared-compat-4.0.16-0
       libnsl.so.1 is needed by MySQL-shared-compat-4.0.16-0
       libnss_nds.so.2 is needed by MySQL-shared-compat-4.0.16-0
       libnss_files.so.2 is needed by MySQL-shared-compat-4.0.16-0
       libpthread.so.0 is needed by MySQL-shared-compat-4.0.16-0
       libpthread.so.0 (GLIBC_2.0) is needed by MySQL-shared-compat-4.0.16-0
       libpthread.so.0 (GLIBC_2.2) is needed by MySQL-shared-compat-4.0.16-0
       libresolv.so.2 is needed by MySQL-shared-compat-4.0.16-0
       libz.so.1 is needed by MySQL-shared-compat-4.0.16-0
root@Katana:~# _

I am beginning to think that either Linux hasn't installed properly (Although I followed the instructions given by a tutorial in a Networks and Communications module last summer) or I need to download and compile binaries (ARGH, SCARY!!!)

Can anyone shed any light on the situation?

I am a linux newbie (Well ish) and have never installed anything on linux before, other than Linux itself, so it could be I am doing something wrong. (I have used MySQL lots though, and have successfully installed in on many windows machines. Though that probably doesn't help!

)

Thanks in advance

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David Thorne, Student
UK

blizeach · November 15th, 2003, 11:57 PM

I am having the exact same problem. Slack9.0 as well.
The problem is that when I installed Slack I told it to install
MySQL. I thought it did so. I looked around and found in the
directory /etc/rc.d/ a file called rc.mysqld.new wich I read.
It said to make this file executable so that it would start the
daemon at system boot. I made it executable. Needless to say it didn't work. So I read a little further. The same files says to build the grant tables by switching to the mysql user with the su command and running
mysql_install_db.

This gives me this error:
/usr/libexec/mysqld: /lib/libpthread.so.0: version `GLIBC_2.3.2' not found (required by /usr/libexec/mysqld)
Installation of grant tables failed!

That is when I figured I'd just try to reinstall for the heck of it and of course now using the rpm --install command with the MySQL rpm I'm getting the same problem Mr. Thorne is getting.

I have posted to multiple news groups and forums. Will someone please help out the Noobs?

David Dalrymple

blizeach over and out!
KCHHH!!!!

CFerthorney · November 16th, 2003, 06:36 AM

I managed to solve this one yesterday (Or day before)

(As Root)
To install MySQL 4, I downloaded the package from the slackware website, as well as GLIBC (package names: glibc-2.3.2-i486-2.tgz (From slackware current on http://www.slackware.com and mysql-4.0.15a-i486-1.tgz) to /tmp or other suitable directory. Then using pkgtool I installed both these packages. Then to initiallise MySQL I typed
su mysql
cd /var/script/mysql
mysql_install_db
mysql_safed
then I changed to tty2 (ctrl-alt-F2) and logged in as root (again)
mysqladmin ping.

To get MySQL running automatically, see your other post http://p2p.wrox.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6527
HTH

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David Thorne, Student
UK