Hello,
could someone tell me how to install Mysql 3.23.58 or Mysql 4 on an opensuse 11.1?
I need an older version than v5 for a program which I can’t get with support for the newest sql version 
Tanks in advance!
Michael
Get a binary distribution from mysql.com and install it somewhere which doesn’t clash with mysql5, maybe /usr/local/mysql or something like that. You’ll have to read it up at mysql.com.
If there is no way to prevent the clash, you can always build it from source from mysql.com.
tanks for your answer,
ok, but the problem is i can’t find any sources from the version 3.23.58!
any idea?
Looks like MySQL AB don’t distribute it any more. You may have to extract the source from an old distribution, e.g. the source RPM for this:
I’m sure there will be other problems, finding compatible libraries, gcc versions, etc.
thanks for your link!
well, i think there will come more problems than i thought before… so i’d better should leave my fingers from this action
i’m thinking about installing a very small and old distribution as an virtual machine and run the mysql 3.23 there… a bit complicated but this may work better
thanks a lot for your posts!
If my memory serves me, there was a version 4.nn which was backwards compatible with earlier versions but, because of the security changes, they dropped backward compatibility with 5.
On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 12:46:02 GMT, ken yap
<ken_yap@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
>Looks like MySQL AB don’t distribute it any more. You may have to
>extract the source from an old distribution, e.g. the source RPM for
>this:
>
>‘mysql-3.23.58-1.i386 RPM’ (http://tinyurl.com/muc8ch)
>
>I’m sure there will be other problems, finding compatible libraries,
>gcc versions, etc.
The deconstruction of MySQL continues per Oracle wishes.