No, actually it didn't help at all. My only question was why did the
dependency fail, which wasn't answered as far as I can tell.
-PG
>From: "Richard Nellist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] PHP4 + MySQL on Cobalt Raq3 HOWTO -- NEED
>guinea pigs!
>Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 21:57:43 -0000
>
>I read through the quick HOWTO and have the following comments. I've
>chopped
>the whole message to keep this one brief.
>
> >Now you'll need to start retriving the nescessary files. We'll use wget,
> >a utility to retrieve files from the World Wide Web without using a
> >full-fledged browser. Here are the commands (this is the most time
> >consuming step):
> >
> >wget http://www.mysql.com/Downloads/MySQL-3.23/MySQL-3.23.23-1.i386.rpm
> >wget
> >http://www.mysql.com/Downloads/MySQL-3.23/MySQL-bench-3.23.23-1.i386.rpm
> >wget
> >http://www.mysql.com/Downloads/MySQL-3.23/MySQL-client-3.23.23-1.i386.rpm
> >wget
> >http://www.mysql.com/Downloads/MySQL-3.23/MySQL-devel-3.23.23-1.i386.rpm
> >wget
> >http://www.mysql.com/Downloads/MySQL-3.23/MySQL-shared-3.23.23-1.i386.rpm
> >wget
> >http://fsr.ku.dk/people/troels/rpms/php/install-ready/i586/php-4.0.2-2.i586
>.rpm
> >wget
> >http://fsr.ku.dk/people/troels/rpms/php/install-ready/i586/php-mysql-4.0.2-
>2.i586.rpm
> >
>
>wget is actually much more powerful. It can be used for grabbing whole ftp
>or http sites, and supports resume. I'm not actually at my Linux box but
>using something along the lines of the following can replace all the
>individual commands for retrieving the MySql rpms.
>
>wget -c -np ftp://ftp.mysql.com/MySQL-3.23/MySQL*-3.23.23-1.i386.rpm should
>pull all the required MySQL files.
>
> The -c tells it to resume, so if the transfer is interrupted it doesn't
>pull all the files from scratch but resumes from where it stopped, even if
>it was mid-file (very useful for long downloads).
>
> The -np tells wget not to travel up the directory structure.
>
>You could also add -b which will switch wget into the background after it
>starts, will all the screen output redirected to a log file.
>
>Typing wget --help will give the options, it may be necessary to use the
>allow file types option eg --allow=.i386.rpm and specify the wildcard (*)
>as
>the filename. Although if there is more than one set of .i386.rpm it will
>pull them all.
>
>I will confirm the actual switches for wget and post them.
>
>Use wget with care otherwise you could end up trying to mirror a whole site
>and all it's links.
>
> >Finally you're ready to install. First you'll need to become root:
> >
> >su
> >
>
>'su' actually stands for Switch User and if invoked with a valid username
>after it will prompt you for a password if that user has higher priviledges
>than the one you are logged in as. ie 'su auser' will make the system
>Switch
>User to the 'auser' account and you will have all their restrictions.
>Similarly 'su' or 'su root' will switch you to the 'root' user account.
>
>
> >then enter your password when it prompts you to. Now invoke the
>installer
> >program, rpm:
> >
> >rpm -Uvh MySQL-*
> >rpm -Uvh php-*
> >
> >Alright! All the nescessary files are in place! To activate PHP,
> >you'll need to restart the web server:
> >
> >/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart
> >
> >You're done! To test PHP, create a file in one your web directories
>named
> >something.php with the following:
> >
> ><?php phpinfo(); ?>
> >
> >Fire up your web browser the appropriate URL, and you should see the PHP4
> >logo. Congrats!
> >
> >--Ricky Dhatt, Sept 00.
> >
> >Websites:
> >MySQL: http://www.mysql.com/
> >PHP: http://www.php.net/
> >PHP4 RPM site: http://fsr.ku.dk/people/troels/rpms/php/
> >
> >For the curious:
> >su stands for SuperUser, which basically means you become the root user.
> >
> >wget is a utility to retrieve files from the World Wide Web without using
> >a full-fledged browser.
> >
> >rpm stands for Redhat Package Manager, which neatly installs pre-compiled
> >programs on your server.
> >
> >
>
>Hope this helps,
>
>Regards
>
>Richard Nellist.
>NellyBase Associates.
>
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