Originally posted by propmaster
I too need to upgrade mysql. I have read everything posted here and information other places and I an scared to try it. I don't know enough about it to try. I can't afford my server to go down. Is there anyone I can hire to make the change for me?
Thanks,
Tim
hi, first u have to find out what is your os. is it fc2,fc3,redhat, etc. if by any chance you are using fedora core2, here is the steps. i saw this on another site. this is a c/p
1. Go to
http://download.fedoralegacy.org/fedora/2/os/i386/
2. Get the location of the yum rpm (right click -> copy location)
3. Log onto your server (ssh root@ip).
4. Download the rpm by running 'wget location-of-file', i.e.:
wget
http://download.fedoralegacy.org/fedora/2/os/i386/yum-2.0.7-1.1.noarch.rpm
5. Try to install the rpm: rpm -Uvh *.rpm
6. The last step will probably fail saying you'll need some more packages on which yum depends. Get these rpm files by looking up the locations of the dependencies at either
http://download.fedoralegacy.org/fedora/2/updates/i386/ or, if it's not in that location, the webpage from step 1. Use wget to download them to your server. Then go to step 5 again. The dependencies you downloaded may need some dependencies in return also, so you might need to repeat this process a couple of times (~4 times or so).
7. When the installation is done, you can remove the rpm files you downloaded: rm -f *.rpm
8. Install ART's GPG key: rpm --import
http://www.atomicrocketturtle.com/RPM-GPG-KEY.art.txt
9. Add the following to /etc/yum.conf:
[atomic]
name=Atomic Rocket Turtle - $releasever - Atomic PSA-Compatible RPMS
baseurl=http://3es.atomicrocketturtle.com/atomic/art/$releasever/
10. Run this command to update mysql: yum update mysql and then restart mysqld: service mysqld restart
So there. I know resolving those dependencies isn't a fun job, but that's exactly why you're installing yum: yum will take care of that from now on.