RE: [TCLUG:2408] MySQL install woes

[Tim Wilson <wilson@chemsun.chem.umn.edu>]

On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Gabe Turner wrote:

> Well I have no experience with MySQL, but as for the egcs configure script
> error, it looks to me like you have to uninstall the old version first...  I
> believe that you can use rpm to do this since egcs was most likely installed
> via rpm when you first setup RedHat 5.1.  I'm not sure of the command however
> since I don't use RedHat.

If you're using RPMs, then you can update an installed package using:

	rpm -Uvh foo.rpm

sometimes if I get complaints, I'll do a

	rpm -Uvh --force foo.rpm

to "force" it to update. Good luck.

-Tim

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