adavan wrote: > I'm really at a loss here, I didn't think I could mess up my system so > badly just by trying this (using the package should be easier, no??).
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Depends on too many things to predict. I don't speak Debian, but I've been using assorted package managers for a long time, and they only work so far. The first time I installed slimserver, back in the 5.2 days, it was click and go. I don't even remember which distro I was using, maybe an early Fedora Core. I switched to Mandrake, and it stayed easy. Then Mandrake changed their name, and it got harder. When I recently had to replace a trashed boot partition, I went to Mandriva 2007 and all the easy package stuff failed. It ended up being easier to just remove all the package stuff, get the tarball and do it by hand. It wasn't really hard, but Mandriva in their infinite wisdom stopped including critical perl modules, so I had to use CPAN to get them, one at a time until I got the slimserver config tool to be happy. I don't even remember if I had to manually install MySql, it was a while ago, altho I do have notes if anyone cares. > What should I do? I don't even know if my mysql server is ok now... Get a shell, type mysql and see what it says. and try mysql mysql -u root -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
