RPM dependencis

Sean O Sullivan seanos at seanos.net
Thu Oct 20 10:48:14 UTC 2005


Sachin Rane wrote:
> Try '--nodeps' flag with 'rpm' command
> 

Never Do this!


> I am trying to install MySQL on my fedora machine. I am getting
> following error message:
> [root at Rizwan mysql]# rpm -i mysql-3.23.58-9.i386.rpm
> warning: mysql-3.23.58-9.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID
> 4f2a6fd2
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         perl-DBD-MySQL is needed by mysql-3.23.58-9
> 

Use yum.
"yum install mysqlclient"
or 'yum install mysql-server'

Read into yum - it's there to deal with dependencies so you don't have to.

Regards,

Sean




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