On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 12:15:15AM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 10:04:41PM +0300, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: > > > > > I think the easiest would be to download their binary tar.gz (what > > they call 'Linux downloads', the first option in their download page). > > I know our DBA installed it more-or-less smoothly on RH73. > > Not always RPMs are less work. Unless it's a trivial package, I tend > > to install RPMs only from the distributor. Packages that have such > > binary, location independent tar.gz's (such as tomcat, java, mozilla, > > etc.) are very often easier to install than RPMs. If the problems are > > real, e.g. if their binary tar.gz does need a shared lib you don't > > have (or a newer one), you _will_ get into trouble, though. > > You may also get into troubles if the package provides a library you > need to link against.
Why? Just to make things clear: I do not suggest to put mysql (or any such non-trivial thing) directly under /usr/local, with e.g. its libs in /usr/local/lib, which can cause trouble (as you said). That's why I said 'location independent'. Put it wherever you want (I do in /usr/local/lib/mysql-xxx), and link to /usr/local/bin just the things you want. And, BTW, I actually don't do exactly even that - I use stow (probably soon to be replaced by a similar, better alternative. Anyone has substantiated suggestions?). -- Didi ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
