mysql help

[minutrice]

Ok I go to all these webpages that tell me how to configure mysql and they tell me to do commands and edit files that aren't there. I don't understand. I used the rpm to install it so I think it should be ok. Anyone else installed mysql with the rpm?

One more thing.... when I try to uninstall the package it says "error: package /downloads/MySQL..... is not installed but then if I use -i instead of -e it tells me "package MySQL..... is already installed. So how can that be. It is already installed but it is not installed 2 seconds later.

Josh

[mairving]

Usually MySQL is installed by default on most new Linux distros. From the shell, try typing in mysql --v to see if MySQL exists. If this doesn't work, then try using the full path (usually /usr/local/mysql), /full_path_to/mysql --v.

If that works, then some post-installation info