I've just finished installing MySQL 4.1.8 from the rpm on the mysql site. After battling the dependency nightmare involved I have it installed and working. I had to uninstall many packages which depended on mysql 3.23 (version included in core 2) and of course I cant reinstall them now that 3.23 is gone. I did google up some brief advice about rebuilding rpms from the Source rpms. but I don't understand it. Quote from http://www.tummy.com/journals/entries/scott_20041117_131449 "Caveat: the PHP rpms that come with fedora don't like integrating with MySQL 4. Downloading the PHP source RPMs and running `rpmbuild --rebuild` on them after MySQL 4 is installed will link them against the proper libraries and the resulting rpms will install happily." The package I want installed is actually a perl thing needed to use the "mysqlhotcopy" command. (perl-DBD-MySQL-2.9003-4) I did get the source rpm (perl-DBD-MySQL-2.9003-4.src.rpm) and tried this to rebuild it after mysql 4.1 was installed " rpmbuild --rebuild perl-DBD-MySQL-2.9003-4.src.rpm" which got me a whole bunch of errors... so my question is can I rebuild this package to work with my installed version of mysql? other options? any other decent alternatives for backing up live mysql databases? PS.. If you are interested here is a list of packages I needed to remove in order to install MySQL 4.1.8 from rpms , so don't do it unless you REALLY need the features in mysql > 4 perl-DBD-MySQL-2.9003-4 mod_auth_mysql-20030510-4.1 php-mysql-4.3.4-11 mysql-server-3.23.58-9 freeradius-mysql-0.9.3-4 libdbi-dbd-mysql-0.6.5-8.1 MyODBC-2.50.39-18.1 qt-MySQL-3.3.2-2 MySQL-python-0.9.2-3.1 mysql-server-3.23.58-9 freeradius-mysql-0.9.3-4 mysql-bench-3.23.58-9 mysql-devel-3.23.58-9 -- Tom Penney _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list