The RPM on the CD has problems.
Go to RedHat or MySQL and get a new one.
"Harry C. Marotto Jr." wrote:
>
> I'm trying to set up a database system for the first time. I installed
>mysql-3.23.32-1.7.i386.rpm
> on my RedHat Linux version 7.0, but it doesn't seem to have set up correctly. Is
>anyone familiar
> with how to proceed from the point of installing this RPM to getting the server
>configured and the
> daemon started, so as to be able to start the tutorial on the test DB?
>
> In the documentation located here:
>http://www.mysql.com/doc/P/o/Post-installation.html, the post
> install instructions don't seem to work.
>
> /usr/bin/mysql_install_db gives the following message:
> "Didn't find /usr/libexec/mysqld
> You should do a 'make install' before executing this script."
>
> Also, I believe I need to be executing the ./mysql_config with some set of arguments
>according to
> this section of the documentation:
>http://www.mysql.com/doc/c/o/configure_options.html
>
> "If you want to compile statically linked programs (for example, to make a binary
>distribution, to
> get more speed, or to work around problems with some RedHat Linux distributions),
>run configure
> like this:
>
> shell> ./configure --with-client-ldflags=-all-static \
> --with-mysqld-ldflags=-all-static "
>
> This document is far too generalized for me to know exactly what to do. I've tried
>bouncing a few
> things around, but have not been able to move forward. Fortunately, I haven't
>messed up my
> system, yet!
>
> Lost in the Ozone, HARry
>
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