On 12/29/05, SOTL <sotl155360@earthlink.net> wrote:
> On Thursday 29 December 2005 12:10 am, Chuck Hast wrote:
> > I am trying to learn how to set up mysql. The machine is a SuSE 10 machine.
> > I have installed mysql and started it, the instructions are calling for me
> > to run mysql control center, but it does not appear to be on the distro
> > DVD.
>
> I know that is part of what I was bitching about with SuSE.
>
> > I pulled down one that was on 9.3, it told me I needed a lib, which I
> > downloaded, when I went to install it, YaST told me I needed to remove a
> > load of newer files, at which point I stopped the install.
>
> You can not do that. SuSE 9.3 and 10.0 use different version of the compiler
> so one can not take programs from one to the other.
>
> > According to the book I am using I should have mysql control center
> > installed, but does not appear to be, it is not on the suse 10 DVD that I
> > installed all of it from either.
>
> Yes, we know.
>
> > I do not know if the control center has been replaced with something else
> > or what. I was just trying to get it loaded so I could try and learn how to
> > use it. --
> > Chuck Hast -- KP4DJT --
>
> Since SuSE does not follow the Red Hat / Mandrake standard way of doing things
> my knowledge of SuSE is to low to advise you how to proceed except in a
> general form.
>
> 1. You can switch distributions to one in which you got what you paid for.
> 2. You can fix it yourself which most likely means that you will need to do a
> full and complete compile of source code as obtained from MySQL. Or, one
> could find the missing components from some SuSE source; problem with this is
> that you will run into the issue that I ran into with Mandrake 10.1 in that
> the update are compiled different than what is on the CDs or what you
> downloads which takes you back in a circular rout of being exactly where you
> are now.
> 3. You can get someone of superior knowledge to fix it for you. This option
> since we are not in Silicon Value may prove difficult. I have had almost zero
> success in this method even when I offered to pay high commercial rates for
> help. Don't expect a lot of help at a linux meeting as the structure and
> length of meetings preclude that.
>
Actually this one is only the 2nd issue I can really say I have had. I still can
not get the stupid thing to pick up the gateway so I have to go in and manually
tell it the default gw. The rest of it works just fine, until this
one. I do have
mysqladmin which looks quite similar and I will probably try to see how to use
it vice the mysqlcc.
-- Chuck Hast -- KP4DJT -- To paraphrase my flight instructor; "the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn and twisted metal."----------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided as an unmoderated internet service by Networked Knowledge Systems (NKS). Views and opinions expressed in messages posted are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of NKS or any of its employees.
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