Re: [cobalt-users] upgrading an already installed MySQL?

[Jay Summers <jay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> having a bit of a problem with our new (as of today) server.  i want to get
> the latest versions of MySQL and PHP working (before throwing clients on it
> and wanting to upgrade later) - however, the box seems to already have MySQL
> installed and i can't get it uninstalled to update it.
> 
> :  Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
> :  Your MySQL connection id is 24 to server version: 3.23.36
> 
> looking at the uninstall how-to it says to uninstall the existing MySQL by
> running the script "/var/lib/cobalt/uninstallers/MySQL-3.23.36-1.uninst"
> 
> :  sh: /var/lib/cobalt/uninstallers/MySQL-3.23.36.uninst: No such file or
> directory

Did you check to see if it was named something else? I would do a list of
the uninstallers directory to see what's in there first.

eg: ls -l /var/lib/cobalt/uninstallers
 
> since it seems to have been preinstalled i can't even do an "rpm -e XXX."  i
> guess basically it comes down to whether or not i'm going to run into
> problems just downloading the binaries off of mysql.com,  and installing on
> top of the current 3.23.36?

If there is no uninstaller file and no rpm files I would think that maybe it
was installed from source. In that case, you could just follow the upgrade
directions from MySQL and install a newer version from source.

cya,
j