From: Helmut Drodofsky <drodofsky at internet-xs.de> >I am installing snort from source. >Besides of a lot of additional libraries, I needed a link >ln -vfs /usr/lib64/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.16 /usr/lib64/libmysqlclient.so >Are there reasons not to install with yum install mysql-devel ? >I have found many discussions to add this link in context of installing from source, nor only for snort. Maybe you needed to tell configure where to find the libs... $ ./configure --help | grep mysql --with-mysql=DIR Support for MySQL --with-mysql-includes=DIR MySQL include directory --with-mysql-libraries=DIR MySQL library directory JD