Slack 11.0 MYSQL problem

[SilverFire]

I`m trying to install the last version of mysql server and client from a rpm source and i get the following error:

error: Failed dependencies:
/bin/sh is needed by MySQL-shared-5.0.27-0.glibc23
libc.so.6 is needed by MySQL-shared-5.0.27-0.glibc23
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by MySQL-shared-5.0.27-0.glibc23
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by MySQL-shared-5.0.27-0.glibc23
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.2) is needed by MySQL-shared-5.0.27-0.glibc23
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3) is needed by MySQL-shared-5.0.27-0.glibc23
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2) is needed by MySQL-shared-5.0.27-0.glibc23
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3) is needed by MySQL-shared-5.0.27-0.glibc23
libcrypt.so.1 is needed by MySQL-shared-5.0.27-0.glibc23
libm.so.6 is needed by MySQL-shared-5.0.27-0.glibc23
libnsl.so.1 is needed by MySQL-shared-5.0.27-0.glibc23
libpthread.so.0 is needed by MySQL-shared-5.0.27-0.glibc23
libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by MySQL-shared-5.0.27-0.glibc23
libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by MySQL-shared-5.0.27-0.glibc23
libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.2) is needed by MySQL-shared-5.0.27-0.glibc23
libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.3.2) is needed by MySQL-shared-5.0.27-0.glibc23
libz.so.1 is needed by MySQL-shared-5.0.27-0.glibc23

I`m very new to the linux universe, can someone help me pls?

[daark.child]

Slackware does not use rpm for package management although various rpm tools are included in the distro. You need to get Slackware mysql tgz packages, or install mysql from source or maybe convert the rpm package into a Slackware package using the "rpm2tgz" command. Personally I would just look for a Slackware tgz.

[SilverFire]

I`ve tried rpm2tgz but it makes them tar.gz instead of .tgz
well... i AM ashamed to admit, but i`m a complete noob at this. can u guide me where to find a downloadable .tgz source or how to transform it from .rpm or tar.gz into a tgz?

[daark.child]

There are two different commands, rpm2tgz and rpm2targz. Which one did you use? As for Slackware packages, you can get them from http://packages.slackware.it/ . When I used Slackware, I used to use a package manager called swaret which could download the required packages from the internet as well as any dependencies. You can also use swaret to do upgrades.

[SilverFire]

i have finally managed to install mysql and started the server, all looked nice untill i rebooted. when the server booted, after it started the mysqld, it killed it.

STOPPING server from pid file /var/run/mysql/mysql.pid 061226 16:43:55 mysqld ended

why? and what do i do to correct the problem?

[daark.child]

Read the text in red on this page.

[SilverFire]

hm... it seems i found an even quicker way to solve it. i just put the startup sequence in rc.local.

/etc/rc.d/mysql.server start

it still gives me the stopping error but then it restarts the mysql server...
not elegant, but as i said, i`m a noob and i`m kinda affraid to do stuff i don`t know what it does.

[likwid]

Did you read that red text? The default db needs to be created by running this command as root:

su mysql -c mysql_install_db


I'm not sure where you got your mysql packages for slack 11, but mine came with an rc.mysqld

You say it starts after the stopping error though? So is it starting or no?