The other day, I just posted an article about setting up Perl on Windows for MySQL.
However, I just ran into an interesting Perl issue on Linux, and it was one slightly out of the ordinary, so I wanted to share the solution, as one might not find this one quickly otherwise.
The problem occured when trying to install the perl-DBD-MySQL module on a linux (CentOS) server, due to a dependency issue.
Most dependency issues are a little more straight-forward, but this one is what I’d almost call a ‘reverse’ dependency issue.
Here was the command:
shell$ yum install perl-DBD-MySQL
Here was the output/error:
Loaded plugins: dellsysid, fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile Setting up Install Process Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package perl-DBD-MySQL.x86_64 0:3.0007-2.el5 set to be updated --> Processing Dependency: libmysqlclient.so.15(libmysqlclient_15)(64bit) for package: perl-DBD-MySQL --> Processing Dependency: libmysqlclient.so.15()(64bit) for package: perl-DBD-MySQL --> Running transaction check ---> Package mysql.x86_64 0:5.0.77-4.el5_4.2 set to be updated --> Processing Conflict: mysql conflicts MySQL --> Finished Dependency Resolution mysql-5.0.77-4.el5_4.2.x86_64 from updates-20100420 has depsolving problems --> mysql conflicts with MySQL-server Error: mysql conflicts with MySQL-server You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem You could try running: package-cleanup --problems package-cleanup --dupes rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest The program package-cleanup is found in the yum-utils package.
Key facts are that this server is now running 5.5, but was running 5.0.77 at a prior time.
Just off the top, my initial quick thought was that an old 5.0.77 remnant was causing the conflict. So I checked all installed mysql rpms:
shell$ rpm -qa -last | grep -i mysql MySQL-test-5.5.16-1.linux2.6 Tue 25 Jan 2011 12:54:28 PM EST MySQL-server-5.5.16-1.linux2.6 Tue 25 Jan 2011 12:54:20 PM EST MySQL-shared-5.5.16-1.linux2.6 Tue 25 Jan 2011 12:54:15 PM EST MySQL-client-5.5.16-1.linux2.6 Tue 25 Jan 2011 12:54:13 PM EST MySQL-devel-5.5.16-1.linux2.6 Tue 25 Jan 2011 12:54:09 PM EST
Hrm, no mention of any 5.0 remnant…
Looking closer at the error shows that yum is wanting to install libmysqlclient.so.15. But, libmysqlclient.so.15 is from MySQL 5.0! (Seems yum is just being conservative here.) So, that is what conflicted with the 5.5 shared library that’s already installed.
Had “MySQL-shared-compat-5.5.16″ (client libraries, including support for older clients) been installed as opposed to just “MySQL-shared-5.5.16″ (5.5 client libs), then the perl-DBD-MySQL would have installed fine.
And just be certain, we installed the shared-compat (used rpm -Uvh package_name), then re-ran the “yum install perl-DBD-MySQL”, and it installed perfectly.
Hope this helps any out there who run into this issue using yum to install the perl-DBD-MySQL module on 5.5 (and if you didn’t install shared-compat).
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