On Thursday 29 December 2005 12:59 pm, Chuck Hast wrote:
> 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 --
It is not the MySQL that is killing me personally nor the Open Office. I have
both of those working. It is the interconnection between the two that I can
not get to work.
My decision to try SuSE was based on what I know and suspect of what current
quality at Mandriva is. I did not like it so I am not staying.
I had several weeks before tried Fedora 4. I still just can not stand the Blue
Curve so I left and went back to Mandrake.
My decision to try Debian was based on all three of the above.
SOTL
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