Mysql conflicts on Centos 6.7

Question

I am trying trying to install RMySQL on Centos 6.7 however I am not very experienced with server stuff so bear with me. I use this command

sudo yum install mysql-devel

However I keep getting the following output

--> Running transaction check
---> Package mysql-devel.x86_64 0:5.1.73-5.el6_7.1 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: mysql = 5.1.73-5.el6_7.1 for package: mysql-devel-5.1.73-5.el6_7.1.x86_64
--> Running transaction check
---> Package mysql.x86_64 0:5.1.73-5.el6_7.1 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: mysql-libs = 5.1.73-5.el6_7.1 for package: mysql-5.1.73-5.el6_7.1.x86_64
--> Running transaction check
---> Package mysql-libs.x86_64 0:5.1.73-5.el6_7.1 will be installed
--> Processing Conflict: mysql55w-5.5.47-1.w6.x86_64 conflicts mysql < 5.5
--> Processing Conflict: mysql55w-libs-5.5.47-1.w6.x86_64 conflicts mysql-libs < 5.5
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: mysql55w-libs conflicts with mysql-libs-5.1.73-5.el6_7.1.x86_64
Error: mysql55w conflicts with mysql-5.1.73-5.el6_7.1.x86_64

Now I assumed I had to replace the package so I tried the solution present here

yum install yum-plugin-replace

yum replace mysql-libs --replace-with mysql55w-libs

yum install mysql55w mysql55w-server

(Processing Conflict: mysql55w-libs-5.5.36-3.w6.x86_64 conflicts mysql-libs < 5.5)

However I get that "Package 'mysql-libs' is not installed" message, even when I use the exact version name (mysql-5.1.73-5.el6_7.1.x86_64)

Anyone has any tip about how to solve this?

Answer 1

You installed mysql55w and mysql55w-libs from a third-party repository, probably to get version 5.5, but those packages conflict with the standard mysql-devel package provided by CentOS, which is at version 5.1. You likely need to find the equivalent -devel package from the third-party repository. Try installing mysql55w-devel instead of mysql-devel.