How to install MySQL 5.0 on RHEL 4
RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 comes with MySQL 4, so it needed to be upgraded. I did it the following way. I am not responsible for anything that happens if you follow these instructions, so please understand what they do!
Make sure to replace the wget RPM downloads with the correct RPMs for your platform! These ones are for AMD/Intel 64 bit (non Itanium)..
Make sure to replace the wget RPM downloads with the correct RPMs for your platform! These ones are for AMD/Intel 64 bit (non Itanium)..
1 2 service mysqld stop 3 cd ~ 4 mkdir mysql 5 cd mysql 6 wget http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-5.0/MySQL-server-standard-5.0.22-0.rhel4.x86_64.rpm/from/http://mirror.x10.com/mirror/mysql/ 7 wget http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-5.0/MySQL-client-standard-5.0.22-0.rhel4.x86_64.rpm/from/http://mirror.x10.com/mirror/mysql/ 8 wget http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-5.0/MySQL-shared-standard-5.0.22-0.rhel4.x86_64.rpm/from/http://mirror.x10.com/mirror/mysql/ 9 wget http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-5.0/MySQL-devel-standard-5.0.22-0.rhel4.x86_64.rpm/from/http://mirror.x10.com/mirror/mysql/ 10 rpm -Uvh --nodeps MySQL-server-standard-5.0.22-0.rhel4.x86_64.rpm 11 rpm -Uvh MySQL-client-standard-5.0.22-0.rhel4.x86_64.rpm 12 rpm -Uvh MySQL-shared-standard-5.0.22-0.rhel4.x86_64.rpm 13 rpm -Uvh MySQL-devel-standard-5.0.22-0.rhel4.x86_64.rpm 14 nano -w /etc/my.cnf 15 # Comment out the base-dir line under [mysqld.server] - RHEL 4 / MySQL bug 16 adduser mysql 17 chown -R mysql:mysql /var/run/mysqld 18 chown -R mysql:mysql /var/lib/mysql 19 service mysql start 20 mysql
