Victor: If you do yum list mysql-server, what do you get back? If you get back something that looks like this: Installed Packages mysql-server.x86_64 5.0.77-3.el5 installed It is already installed. Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (281)846-8957, http://www.JAMMConsulting.com <http://www.jammconsulting.com/> CentOS 5.4 KVM VPS $55/mo, no setup fee, no contract, dedicated 64bit CPU 1GB dedicated RAM, 40GB RAID storage, 500GB/mo premium BW, Zero downtime _____ From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Victor Subervi Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 11:02 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] MySQL installation problem Man, this is getting frustrating. In addition to all the other yum install commands that tell me there's nothing to do, I add these: yum install mysql-server.i386 yum install mysql-server What gives? TIA, V On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote: On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 12:34 -0400, Victor Subervi wrote: > service mysqld start > mysqld: unrecognized service > vi /etc/init.d/mysqld > Opens new file. > Furthermore, the following commands tell me there's no package > available: > yum install proftp > yum install vsftp > yum install pureftpd > Please advise. ---- You need to install mysql server software but rather than tell you what to install, I will tell you how to find what you need to install... yum search mysql somewhere in the ouput of that command, there will be the server software that you need to install. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20091105/b1b6b6e4/attachment-0005.html>