On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 03:44:00PM -0600, Raymond Norton wrote:
> I need to remove a previous version of mysql and install the newest. When trying to remove the previous version it complains about dependencies . I don't know what to do about it, so I end up with a successful install of the new version. Any help would be appreciated
> 
> rpm -e mysql-3.23.36-1
> error: removing these packages would break dependencies:
> mysql = 3.23.36 is needed by mysql-devel-3.23.36-1
> mysql = 3.23.36 is needed by mysql-server-3.23.36-1
> mysql is needed by php-mysql-4.0.4pl1-9
> libmysqlclient.so.10 is needed by mysql-server-3.23.36-1
> libmysqlclient.so.10 is needed by perl-DBD-MySQL-1.2215-1
> libmysqlclient.so.10 is needed by php-mysql-4.0.4pl1-9
> libmysqlclient.so.10 is needed by rpm2html-1.5-4

Don't do that. Just get the new rpms for mysql, mysql-devel and mysql-server
and ran 
   rpm -U mysql-<new version>.rpm mysql-devel-<new version>.rpm mysql-server-<new version>.rpm

NOTE: you must give all the packages to upgrade on the same command line.

florin

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