yum package conflict installing mysqlclient package

Question

I'm trying to build and install Zabbix 1.8 on my CentOS 5.2 server. This server has MySQL 5.0 installed from the standard CentoOS 5.2 repository.

./configure ... is failing because of:

configure: error: Not found mysqlclient library

When I do yum list mysqlclient* yum says there are no matching packages.

So I did a yum install mysqlclient* but get this error:

Transaction Check Error: file /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.15.0.0 from install of mysqlclient15-5.0.91-1.ius.el5.i386 conflicts with file from package mysql-5.0.77-4.el5_5.4.i386
file /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient_r.so.15.0.0 from install of mysqlclient15-5.0.91-1.ius.el5.i386 conflicts with file from package mysql-5.0.77-4.el5_5.4.i386

How do I resolve this?

Answer 1

Install the mysql-devel package.

Answer 2

The mysqlclient library (libmysqlclient) is--as the error implies--already installed. Rather, it sounds like your paths are not setup correctly, which may be because the file is in a subdirectory of lib.

Try running configure with:

./configure --with-mysql=/usr/lib/mysql ...

You can also specify the path to mysql_config instead. If this continues to fail, you can explicitly set the library paths for configure, by setting environment variables:

LDFLAGS=/usr/lib/mysql ./configure ...

Leave feedback if this doesn't work, and good luck!

Answer 3

A sidenote about yum saying nothing is matches. My bet is you have a file that matches mysqlclient* in the directory you are running yum from. Try

yum list 'mysqlclient*'

Use apostrophes, not double quotes because these interpolate and you would have the same problem.