I have installed MariaDB 5.3.3 on a Centos 6 server. In order to do that, I had to issue this command before installing the MariaDB-server rpm:
rpm -e --nodeps mysql-libs
And now mariadb and all the other software in the server is working fine.
Today I tried to upgrade the packages in my server the packages were successfully upgraded with the only exception of postfix which I can't install because of this error:
Running rpm_check_debug
ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve:
mysql-libs is needed by postfix-2:2.6.6-2.2.el6_1.x86_64
** Found 1 pre-existing rpmdb problem(s), 'yum check' output follows:
2:postfix-2.6.6-2.1.el6_0.x86_64 has missing requires of mysql-libs
Your transaction was saved, rerun it with: yum load-transaction /tmp/yum_save_tx-2012-02-13-09-487yg1lQ.yumtx
.. install failed!
Could anyone help me overcome this problem? I am pretty sure that the software in the mysql-libs package is already installed by mariadb packages but this information ins not in the rpm system.
Additional info:
It's not so much that the package is conflicting, it's more that you uninstalled a postfix dependency (postfix mysql integration) in getting MariaDB-server to install.
If you reverse your steps and reinstall mysql-libs again, you'll solve this problem (but probably lose MariaDB). You might just get lucky by installing the compat-libs however.
(Given the lack of answers, it might be worth it. I'll give it a shot when I get a spare moment on a Cent 6 VM)
Add the remi repository to your rpm repo by doing the following;
Then try to install the mysql-compat rpm...
And if that works, see if you can update