Uninstall MySQL-shared-standard (to make PHP work)

[MarkMan5]

How can I uninstall MySQL-shared-standard? I need to install the compat version and must first uninstall the standard version, so as to get PHP to talk to MySQL. I tried:

 

rpm -e MySQL-shared-standard-5.0.27-0.rhel4.i386.rpm

 

and received the error:

error: package MySQL-shared-standard-5.0.27-0.rhel4.i386.rpm is not installed

 

but the files are installed and:

rpm -qa | grep -i mysql

 

outputted:

MySQL-server-standard-5.0.27-0.rhel4

MySQL-client-standard-5.0.27-0.rhel4

php-mysql-5.0.2-1

MySQL-shared-standard-5.0.27-0.rhel4

 

 

Please help.  Thanks in advance.

[the_oliver]

Are you sure your runnig on i386?

You can also try "yum remove MySQL".  But may have to set up yum first.  If you do use yum it should be able to cope with the upgrade, without having to remove the previous version.