Installing/Uninstalling MySQL-3.23.55-1 (Red Hat 8.0)

[Nylex23]

Hi, I downloaded the rpm file for this from the MySQL website and installed using rpm -i MySQL-3.23.55-1.rpm. It went fine and said I should run mysqladmin to set root password but all I got was 'command not found'. The reason I downloaded the RPM was because I couldn't install the one that came with RH. It gave me errors about PostgreSQL, which I didn't even have installed :/.

I then tried to uninstall it, without much luck:

[root@localhost Downloads]# rpm -e MySQL-3.23.55-1
error reading information on service mysql: No such file or directory
error: %preun(MySQL-3.23.55-1) scriptlet failed, exit status 1

Can anyone help? Thanx.

[Nylex23]

Thanx a lot :/.

[Lamont]

I'm using RH 7.3 and found that there were a few other modules I had to install before MySQL would work. If they are not included in RH8 then you may need to install them.