how yo resolve Mariadb conflict with mysql to install mySQL-python dependencies

Question

I'm trying to install the required dependencies for MySQL-python but I'm doing

yum install mysql

and I'm getting this response

mariadb conflicts with MySQL51-server You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem You could try running: package-cleanup --problems

I am a newbie on unix, I'm using a virtualenv on centOS 5.10. I'm setting up a Django project via SSH, but this is stopping me from it.

What do these suggestion mean? how should I proceed?

Thanks

Answer 1

it seems you already have MariaDB installed, and it prevents installing MySQL. MariaDB is a drop-in replacement for MySQL and as such it should work with Django as is (excluding some minor issues).

You should be able to control the service using:

/etc/init.d/mysql start

/etc/init.d/mysql status

/etc/init.d/mysql stop

Here is more info regarding installation of MariaDB on CentOS