Re: [SLUG] Debian

From: Chuck Hast (wchast@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Dec 29 2005 - 12:59:30 EST


On 12/29/05, Mike Branda <mike@wackyworld.tv> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 10:14 -0500, SOTL wrote:
>
> > > I'm not too bright, but I was able to get Linux/Apache/MySQL running pretty
> > > easily on Fedora Core 3, SuSE, and Debian Sarge. There must be something
> > > basically different about our approaches, since our results are so
> > > different.
> >
> > My object is not to get MySQL to work or Open Office to work; I have that.
> > They as stand alone in Mandrake work quite well. In SuSE they do not and I
> > have no desire to repair SuSE so that they do since I simply do not like
> > SuSE.
> >
> > My objective is to take Open Office Data Base and connect it to a MySQL server
> > which means ODBC and/or JDBC must work with MySQL. That means that MySQL and
> > ODBC and/or JDBC must be compatible. For compatibility they must be the same
> > version and compile which trying to use MySQL from one of the commercial
> > distribution and ODBC and/or JDBC from the vendor are not compatable since
> > they are different compiles plus there are possible other issues I haven't
> > even discovered yet. Modifying and adding components to existing
> > distributions is not the easiest thing to do for non techies.
>
> SuSE 10 (paid version CompUSA $59) YaST --> Software Management -->
> Search odbc returns 5 packages. 2 of which are installed already for me
> from the 5 cd set.
>
> unixODBC-2.2.11-2.i586.rpm:
>
> unixODBC - ODBC driver manager with some drivers included
>
>
> java-1_4_2-sun-jdbc-1.4.2.06-5.i586.rpm:
>
> java-1_4_2-sun-jdbc - JDBC/ODBC bridge driver for java-1.4.2-sun
>
>
> Search mysql returns 10.... 5 of which are already installed and 3 that
> I'll list.
>
> mysql-connector-java-3.1.12-0.pm.0.noarch.rpm:
>
> mysql-connector-java - mysql jdbc driver
>
>
> mysql-shared-4.1.13-3.i586.rpm:
>
> mysql-shared - MySQL Shared Libraries
>
>
> mysql-4.1.13-3.i586.rpm:
>
> mysql - A true Multi-User, Multi-Threaded SQL Database Server
>
>
> Would you look at that!! All the packages came with the distro (all
> compatible) and I didn't have to do a damn thing!! Well, except check
> the top level little box when I install that says "network server" and
> "java". Now obviously a lot of stuff came with that but I have disk
> space to burn. Just do a base install, select these few later in
> software management and you will fore go all the other network server
> stuff.
>
> > >
> > > I install strictly off of CDs. That is, I download the entire 5 (or so)
> > > ISOs. I wonder if that makes a difference. I purchased my first good
> > > distro, SuSE 9.1, and it was pretty painless.
> >
>
> Note: OpenSuSE is not the same as what you buy off the shelf. It's
> missing everything Sun (Java) and Adobe And Macromedia and such as they
> are not completely open source which is the goal of OpenSuSE. The store
> bought version can include such things.
>
> > There has been a big chance in the Commercial Linux world since SuSE 9.1.
> > Namely SuSE has gong bankrupt in all but name and been acquired by Novel who
> > is in a major fight with The SCO Group over ownership et of Linux for details
> > see Groklaw.
>
> And Novell has done a damn good job of making it better and pumping
> money into it including advertising and MAJOR improvements.
>
>
> > Give up hell. I have been working on this now since the Red Hat 5.3 days and I
> > am still bitching over the exact same issue now that I was then with
> > commercial linux.
> >
>
> No Comment.
>

I was going by the stuff in the SuSE Linux 10 book that is on the shelves,
there is a piece that tells you to use mysql control center to do some
configuring, I am suspecting that they took that from older distros, I was
looking at mysqladmin and suspect that it has superceeded the mysqlcc,
I just have to map the book instructions for mysqlcc to mysqladmin, this
is my first poke at db fun, so I am very step by step on this.

Maybe we need a mysqlsetupday-fest.... So the more properly trained in
this art can give those of us less blessed a bit of help. I know I can get it
up and running, but I tend to do things bassackwards and in the long run
probably not the correct sequence for long term stability, so proper guidance
is a Good Thing....

--
Chuck Hast  -- KP4DJT --
To paraphrase my flight instructor;
"the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going
out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn
and twisted metal."

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