installing mysql on linux

[sachi83]

hi friends,

Im using centos.

i have install rpm for mysql
MySQL-client-5.1.41-0.glibc23.i386.rpm
MySQL-server-5.1.41-0.glibc23.i386.rpm
MySQL-server-5.1.41-0.glibc23.i386.rpm
MySQL-server-5.1.41-0.glibc23.i386.rpm

but when i have enter
service mysqld start
it shows
mysqld: unrecognized service

and when I type
mysql
it shows
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111)

whats the problem
can anyone knows ????????? plz

[meton_magis]

mysql is the command to connect to a database and run commands / queries. I think (using my memory, and while I have a photographic memory, I ran out of film.) that the command to manualy start it is mysqld.

the easiest way I can think of the check the service name for mysql is to look in /etc/init.d for somethign that looks right. You may have to run

chkconfig --add $mysqlname
before the service scripts work.

One question, Why didn't you use yum?

I understand why someone would install from source instead of using yum, but you used an RPM, which is the same as yum, just not made specificaly for CentOS.