Ray,

You could try and use the upgrade 
command line switch in RPM (use 
'man rpm' and 'rpm --help').

Otherwise you can remove all the 
dependencies on a single 'rpm -e'
line, but it looks like alot of things 
depend on the MySQL package 
in your machine.

I do recommend that you not use 
'rpm --force' without trying _every_ 
other option.

Good luck,

Troy

>>> ray at lctn.k12.mn.us 12/10/01 03:44PM >>>
I need to remove a previous version of mysql and install the newest. When trying to remove the previous version it complains about dependencies . I don't know what to do about it, so I end up with a successful install of the new version. Any help would be appreciated

rpm -e mysql-3.23.36-1
error: removing these packages would break dependencies:
mysql = 3.23.36 is needed by mysql-devel-3.23.36-1
mysql = 3.23.36 is needed by mysql-server-3.23.36-1
mysql is needed by php-mysql-4.0.4pl1-9
libmysqlclient.so.10 is needed by mysql-server-3.23.36-1
libmysqlclient.so.10 is needed by perl-DBD-MySQL-1.2215-1
libmysqlclient.so.10 is needed by php-mysql-4.0.4pl1-9
libmysqlclient.so.10 is needed by rpm2html-1.5-4


Raymond