Topic: CGI / Mysql woes... -> RPM problem.

[Michiel Boterenbrood]

Hi all,

I want to install this bulletin board called Ultraboard. It's a CGI board and has the capability to use mySQL. For mySQL to work with CGI you need to install the DBI and DBD drivers.
The DBI drivers install correctly, but the DBD drivers return an error during install that mysql.h is missing. That file is nowhere to be found on the system.
After some research I've discoverd I need to install the mysql-devel and mysql-client packages. There are however no e-smith specific packages so I downloaded the packages from Red Hat 7.0
I cannot install thos because of dependency errors.

Please advise as to how I can install the mysql-devel RPM

Thanks in advance for any help,

Michiel Boterenbrood
michiel.boterenbrood@planet.nl

[Mahmood Al-Yousif]

Well you can do:

  rpm -ivh --nodeps MySQL*.rpm

This way you force it to ignore the perl5 errors as that is already installed on the system.

HOWEVER, Please have a look at my thread regarding problems I have had doing this kind of installation as e-Smith doesn't like it... I have not had a reply from anyone regarding my issues yet. I hope someone will!

Here's the thread I initiated:

  http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=1835.msg6109#msg6109

hope this helps

regards
mahmood