Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3336 mails)

["Joe Morris (NTM)" <Joe_Morris@xxxxxxx>]

Susemail wrote:
> In this case it didn't install in these directories or anywhere else according 
> to locate and manual inspection.  
>   
Did you run rpm -i /home/myhome/bin/MySQL-5.0.16-0.src.rpm as root? 
Only root can install in those directories.
> In any case should'nt ' rpm -i /home/myhome/bin/MySQL-5.0.16-0.src.rpm' have 
> built and installed the rpm with dependencies? 
>   
No.  Try rpmbuild --rebuild MySQL-5.0.16-0.src.rpm from
/home/yourhome/bin directory as root.  If it worked (which I doubt as
what you are trying to do seems to be a stretch of your experience
level), you would find your binary rpms in /usr/src/packages/RPMS/<arch>
(meaning whatever architecture your machine is, i.e.i686, i586, etc.). 
Resolving the dependencies will probably be a trial and error process
(depending on the src.rpm).  You should look for already built SuSE rpms
for your version if available.  Try http://rpm.pbone.net for starters. 
OR, try one of the SuSE Enterprise packages from the mysql website.

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Joe Morris
Registered Linux user 231871