Can you give me any insight how to uninstall the Cobalt RPM for MySQL (v. 3.22.21)? I have downloaded the source for MySQL 3.22.32 and now I have 2 versions installed. Also, what are the major differences between the source and an RPM (a truly Newbie question indeed)? I mean are the files stored in different locations depending on source vs. RPM? Please help.
Sorry, been battling the flu so it took me awhile to get back to the board.0) Try "man rpm" sometime, it will help :) RPM can be confusing to newberts, and I'm woefully inadequate with it ... but "rpm -i", "rpm -qa" and "rpm -e" are generally enough to get you by most times.
1) files in the RPM are probably installed in a default location ... as would anything you compiled from source unless you modified the source. In other words, if you delete the RPM there is at least a chance that you will be removing files also used by the RPM installation.
2) the proper procedure in this case would have been to
a] backup your database content
b] remove the RPM
c] install the version you compiled from source
3) To remove the MySQL rpm, log in to your server as "root", run the
command "rpm -qa" and look for the MySQL entry. then type "rpm -e [MySQL
entry]".
As noted above, this may kill files your source compiled version is using, so you probably want to log in and find out where your database content is stored and make backup copies of the files. Not knowing alot about MySQL and not needing to use it myself, I can't tell you where those files are ... but you should be able to figure it out.