dovecot - Nov 2006 - Which version of dovecat I must use quit mysql 14.12 5.0.24a?

Hello everybody!!

I'm new on linux machine configuration, and I have a question related to 
product versions.
We've Linux seweb1 2.6.9-5.EL installed, but instead of install the 
mysql product from "Red Hat Interprise Linux 4" CD what is 
mysql-0:4.1.7-4.RHEL4.1.i386, we installed:  *mysql 14.12 5.0.24a
*So, now, when we tried to install dovecot, it needs 
mysql-0:4.1.7-4.RHEL4.1.i386, perl-DBD-MySQL-0:2.9004-3.1.i386 and 
postgresql-libs-0:74.6-1.RHEL4.2.i386.
I don't want to install these packets from mysql because I'm afraid to 
crash the mysql that we've now working......
So, my question is, what I need to do in this case?

Can I install the mysql CD version without interferring to our actual BD 
working: *mysql 14.12 5.0.24a?
*Or....Which version of dovecot we must install in order to work with 
*mysql 14.12 5.0.24a.

*I would be very gratefully if you could help me, beacause we afraid to 
crash the BD that is working now, and we don't know how to install 
dovecot in this case.

Best regards,

Maria
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maria.freixes_graells at alcatel.es wrote:
> Can I install the mysql CD version without interferring to our actual BD 
> working: *mysql 14.12 5.0.24a?
> *Or....Which version of dovecot we must install in order to work with 
> *mysql 14.12 5.0.24a.
This is only peripherally related to dovecot, since you are trying to 
install some third-party RPM file which is not provided by the project 
itself.  It is not, in practice, possible to install an RPM of MySQL 
different from the one used to build packages that depend on MySQL 
(since the libraries are not necessarily compatible).  Precompiled 
binary RPM's produced by third-parties are by necessity based on the 
distro-supplied RPM's, so you cannot freely mix and match.

Of course, you could download the source code from dovecot.org and 
actually build dovecot from scratch (probably still the preferred 
method).  Make sure that you install the MySQL dev RPM that matches the 
libraries you already have installed (since the headers, etc. are not 
usually provided in the base RPM).

John

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