[Yum] upgrading MySQL package 3.23 to package 4.1.11 with yum

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Sat Jul 2 21:18:45 UTC 2005


On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 09:41 +0530, Pragati Sinha wrote:
> hello,
> im using FC3 as my platform for creating a snort IDS.Now im requiered
> to upgrade the MySQL database from 3.23 to 4.0 or above.But when im
> trying to install MySQL by the RPM install,it shows me failed
> dependencies error,which are already present on the system.
> If i try to upgrade these dependencies by the rpm their confinguration
> files conflict.
> Can someone please tell me if yum can be used for this
> ugrade,alongwith all its dependencies?
> If yes,how to do it?

yum can automatically install dependencies, yes.
However, if there aren't packages available which resolve those
dependencies there is, of course, nothing yum (or any other program) can
do.

-sv





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