On torsdag, nov 28, 2002, at 13:45 Europe/Stockholm, Richard Lanyon wrote:

chown: /sw/var/mysql/mysql: No such file or directory
chown: /sw/var/mysql/test: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing mysql (--install):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 mysql
### execution of dpkg failed, exit code 1
Failed: can't install package mysql-3.23.53-1

Have you checked the /sw/var/mysql directory, it's probably still there since dpkg dies in the post-installation phase. My guess (and yours too IIRC) is that it's a permissions issue -- the whole dir should be owned by mysql/mysql. Try creating the directories manually and see if that works.

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Oscar Erlandsson [erlandsson at mac dot com]



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