Here a quick step by step guide about installing MySQL 4.0.21 on CentOS-3 and other RHEL3 compatible distributions. You need to have all development tools installed.
First, open a terminal window and switch to root
Download the MySQL source package
Rebuild the package using rpmbuild
The MySQL packages are now ready to install. Change to the RPMS directory
and install the packages
Now you can start the MySQL service
MySQL 4.0.21 is now up and running
First, open a terminal window and switch to root
su -
Download the MySQL source package
wget ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/db/mysql/Downloads/MySQL-4.0/MySQL-4.0.21-0.src.rpm
Rebuild the package using rpmbuild
rpmbuild --rebuild MySQL-4.0.21-0.src.rpm
The MySQL packages are now ready to install. Change to the RPMS directory
cd /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386
and install the packages
rpm -Uvh --nodeps MySQL-server-4.0.17-0.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh MySQL-shared-compat-4.0.17-0.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh MySQL-client-4.0.17-0.i386.rpm
Now you can start the MySQL service
service mysql start
MySQL 4.0.21 is now up and running
