First thing I want to try on CentOS 5.5 is mariadb. Fortunately mariadb available in binary for CentOS and don’t force me to install from source like I do with FreeBSD since its not available yet on FreeBSD ports.
I’m going to install mariadb 5.23 and make it as learning media 🙂
Here the steps :
Download mariadb rpm file
Get all rpm file (client and server) from osuosl mirror.
# ls
MariaDB-client-5.2.3-87.el5.i386.rpm MariaDB-server-5.2.3-87.el5.i386.rpm
Install the files
# rpm -i MariaDB-*
error: Failed dependencies:
libmysqlclient.so.16 is needed by MariaDB-client-5.2.3-87.el5.i386
libmysqlclient.so.16(libmysqlclient_16) is needed by MariaDB-client-5.2.3-87.el5.i386
libmysqlclient_r.so.16 is needed by MariaDB-client-5.2.3-87.el5.i386
libmysqlclient_r.so.16(libmysqlclient_16) is needed by MariaDB-client-5.2.3-87.el5.i386
libmysqlclient.so.16 is needed by MariaDB-server-5.2.3-87.el5.i386
libmysqlclient.so.16(libmysqlclient_16) is needed by MariaDB-server-5.2.3-87.el5.i386
libmysqlclient_r.so.16 is needed by MariaDB-server-5.2.3-87.el5.i386
libmysqlclient_r.so.16(libmysqlclient_16) is needed by MariaDB-server-5.2.3-87.el5.i386
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