Bellerophon symbol, variation 7 jonath.co.uk
Thursday 27th Oct 2005
Web-site is down at time of writing. This is because I'm upgrading/updating my version of MySQL, from version 4.0.something or another, to version 4.1.14. The change in version number is less than 0.1, perhaps 0.09, and yet this has been a disproportionately onerous exercise. With my present operating system, there should be a single command to do all this updating automatically . . . some software would talk to some server somewhere or another, and kind of work out what needs updating (for bug fixes, security patches, et cetera) and make all the changes without any intervention. However, during the upgrade of MySQL the process terminated with this weird error message, containing a link to a web-site on how I might fix this error. Part of this resolution involved running a command 'revdep-build'. Running 'revdep-rebuild' produced another error message, something to do with libglade-config. Some program or another was unable to find 'libglade-config', hence the error. A little bit of investigation reveals that libglade has nothing much to do with MySQL, but is some Gnome application (I don't even run Gnome) to do with the graphics in Opera and some application associated thereof. Trawling around the internet a bit . . . many hours later, I work out, fathom or otherwise guess that I need to install libglade, but not the current version - that would be far to easy. No, I need to install version 0 dot something of libglade, and not the current 2 dot whatever. Ancient version of libglade installed, libglade-config now exists. I re-run revdep-rebuild, which now completes without error. I can then carry on upgrading MySQL. This my computer is now doing. But in order to do this upgrade, I must terminate the current running version of MySQL. You see? So that's why the web-site was down. This is what I'm currently doing, but I think I got distracted from the more dull task of printing/gathering miscellaneous bills and statements, in order to finalise another re-remortgage. The second letter I received concerning this was titled, "Re: Re-mortgage" which I liked.

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