Re: MySQL Administrator won't start up on SuSE 9.2

On Wednesday 15 February 2006 01:14pm, Whil Hentzen wrote:
> Alfredo Kengi Kojima wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Can you run rpm -q glib2 in a shell and paste here the output?
>
> The output says....
>
> glib2-2.4.6.5
>
> > It seems the version of glib in SuSE 9.2 is too old.
>
> I was kinda afraid of that.
>
> > You can try upgrading it (I think the glib2 package from SuSE 9.3
> > might work). You can also try using the tar.gz package.
>
> The hint above was helpful and got me started on the right path. I was
> able to find the 2.6.3-4 rpm (for 9.3).
>
> Unfortunately :(, I'm a database guy, not much of a sysadmin, and still
> too new to Linux. No luck on installing it. rpm -i <name> as root just
> returns another prompt and the rpm -q shows that 2.4.6.5 is still current.

Well, rpm -i will only work if *all* of the packages you are trying to install 
are *not* already on the system, or in cases like kernel RPMs where no two 
versions share any files.

Only use "rpm -ivh kernel-x.x.xx-x.x.rpm" command for kernel updates.

For *everything* else, use "rpm -Uvh package-version-release.arch.rpm".

You're command returned because there was nothing for it to do.

However, I would highly recommend that you do not try to install that newer 
glibc package.  If you want to, make sure you have no data that you care 
about on your system, because when you install that new glibc package, I 
doubt anything on your system will still work.

If you want to make this work, update your system to the newer release.  
Update to SUSE LINUX 9.3 or SUSE OpenLinux 10.0 and then install the MySQL 
GUI tools.
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