Linux Dependencies! Grrr...What now?

[H. P. Friedrichs]

While I have having successfully written some scripts for python 1.4 (on
my rh5.0 linux box), and successfully installing mysql, I have been
trying for a week to figure out how to get the mysqldb module to work
(to allow python to talk to mysql).

First, I found out that mysqldb will only work with python 1.5.2...which
necessitated an upgrade. Dependencies! Dependencies! I ended up
installing python, python-devel, blt, tix _tkinter and tkinter. (I've
been warned that as the result of my upgrade, I have now "broken"
netcfg, but I'll deal with that on another day.)

Now I go to install mysqldb, and it complains, among other things, of
missing files and directories. Looks like I need mysql-devel.
Dependencies! Dependencies!

I go to the web and find it. I try to install the rpm, and it won't. It
seems I need glibc6 (2.0 and 2.1). But what about everything compiled
with the existing library? What happens if I "upgrade" to glibc6? What
do I risk breaking by doing that?



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