Oracle 5.0 Reference Manual page 119

Installing MySQL from RPM Packages on Linux
applications installed that are dynamically linked against older versions of MySQL but you want to
upgrade to the current version without breaking the library dependencies.
• MySQL-clustermanagement-communityVERSION.glibc23.i386.rpm,
MySQL-clusterstorage-communityVERSION.glibc23.i386.rpm,
clustertools-communityVERSION.glibc23.i386.rpm,
communityVERSION.glibc23.i386.rpm
Packages that contain additional files for MySQL Cluster installations. These are platform-specific
RPMs, in contrast to the platform-independent
Note
The
and the
Installation
Size Requirement
• MySQL-ndb-management-VERSION.glibc23.i386.rpm,
storage-VERSION.glibc23.i386.rpm, MySQL-ndb-tools-VERSION.glibc23.i386.rpm,
MySQL-ndb-extra-VERSION.glibc23.i386.rpm
Packages that contain additional files for MySQL Cluster installations. These are platform-
independent RPMs, in contrast to the platform-specific
•
MySQL-test-community-VERSION.glibc23.i386.rpm
This package includes the MySQL test suite.
•
MySQL-VERSION.src.rpm
This contains the source code for all of the previous packages. It can also be used to rebuild the
RPMs on other architectures (for example, Alpha or SPARC).
The suffix of RPM package names (following the
[.PLATFORM].CPU.rpm
The and
PLATFORM CPU
present, indicates the platform, and
If the value is missing (for example, MySQL-server-VERSION.i386.rpm), the package
PLATFORM
is statically linked against a version of
threads with larger stack sizes than the stock library.
If is present, the package is dynamically linked against
PLATFORM
indicates whether the package is platform independent or intended for a specific platform, as shown in
the following table.
Value
PLATFORM
glibc23
rhel4, rhel5
sles10
The value indicates the processor type or family for which the package is built.
CPU
Value
CPU
i386, i586, i686
x86_64
MySQL-clustertools
and
DBI HTML::Template
Notes", and Section 17.4.18,
Estimator", for more information.
values indicate the type of system for which the package is built. PLATFORM, if
indicates the processor type or family.
CPU
2.2 that has been patched to handle larger numbers of
glibc
Intended Use
Platform independent, should run on any Linux distribution that supports
2.3
glibc
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 or 5
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
Intended Processor Type or Family
Pentium processor or better, 32 bit
64-bit x86 processor
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MySQL-clusterextra-
RPMs.
ndb-xxx
RPM requires a working installation of perl
packages. See
"ndb_size.pl
MySQL-ndb-
clusterxxx-community
value) has the following syntax:
VERSION
glibc
MySQL-
Section 2.22, "Perl
— NDBCLUSTER
RPMs.
2.3 and the
PLATFORM
value