Re: MySQL 4.1

[anoop aryal <aaryal@foresightint.com>]

On Tuesday 11 October 2005 09:55 am, Sanjay Debian wrote:
> On 10/11/05, Michael Satterwhite <michael@weblore.com> wrote:
> > I'd been running MySQL 4.0 on Debian, but need to upgrade to 4.1. What
> > procedure would you recommend? What about supporting PHP / Python / ???
> > packages
> >
> > The 4.1 packages appear to be broken as the command
> > apt-get install mysql-server-4.1 mysql-client-4.1 mysql-common-4.1
> >

[snip]

>
> I upgraded from mysql 4.0 to 4.1 a while back, without any issues. Try
> doing apt-get update and then install mysql. There is also a switch to
> apt-get to install with all the dependencies. I don't remember now, but you
> would be able to find out from manpages.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> sanjay

try using 'aptitude'. eg:

aptitude install mysql-server-4.1

it should do a better job of resolving dependencies.

anoop.