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I'm facing a problem installing php-mysql-4.2.2-17 rpm on a redhat 9 OS, i've installed mysql-3.23.54a-11 , php-4.2.2-17 and glibc-2.3.2-11.9 RPMs which are required for the one i need.
Each time i get this error:
libmysqlclient.so.10 is needed by php-mysql-4.2.2-17
php = 4.2.2-17 is needed by php-mysql-4.2.2-17
I red about this and didn't find a solution.

I never found the rpm's for all those to work out cleanly, so I would definately recommend that you install mysql/php/apache from source.

Hmm, try install it is one string:

rpm -Uvh php-mysql-4.2.2-17 php-4.2.2-17

Ah, yes.
You need mysql-server and mysql-client too :)

I'd prefere the 1st solution as installing from rpms is getting me the wrong way every time.

Go install it from source then, it's really not too difficult, I only use RPMs for quick small application installs (wget for example). Also on a side note, you might want to think about using RH9 as it is no longer updated.

I had something very similar and i created used ln to use the write in my case so.14 when it wanted so.12 and all works fine.

Hope it helps..