Did you download and install both client and server? Have you gone through
post installation?
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From: "Nathaniel Hekman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 6:45
Subject: trouble installing mysql rpm on Linux
> I'm having trouble installing the MySQL RPM on Linux. I've got
> mysql-3.23.32-1.7.i386.rpm and I'm on RH Linux 7.0. I run 'rpm -i
> mysql-3.23.32-1.7.i386.rpm' and it shows no errors, but then I try running
> 'mysql' (the client) and get this error:
>
> ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
> '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111)
>
> It's not too difficult to figure out why: the mysql daemon isn't running.
> 'ps a | grep -i mysql' comes up empty; there's nothing in /etc/rc.d to
start
> mysql. I found a file /usr/share/mysql/mysql.server which is a script
that
> says it's supposed to be run from /etc/rc.d, but it's 644 (not
executable),
> and definitely not linked to rc.d. There are a lot of mysql* files in
> /usr/bin...
>
> What am I missing? Did the rpm get installed correctly and there's just
> some other step I'm supposed to do? Or did it not install correctly? How
> can I tell?
>
> Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
>
>
> Nate
>
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