Thank everybody for your replies:) Things look a little different now that I have used some of the info from the group. This is what I get now after downloading (what I presume are the right files). Does anyone know what I can do about this? [root at support admin]# ls MySQL-devel-3.23.46-1.i386.rpm MySQL-3.23.46-1.i386.rpm MySQL-shared-3.23.46-1.i386.rpm MySQL-client-3.23.46-1.i386.rpm rpm -Uhv *.rpm error: failed dependencies: MySQL-server conflicts with mysql-server-3.23.36-1 mysql-devel >= 3.23.27 is needed by perl-DBD-MySQL-1.2215-1