Hello,
I am trying to reinstall MySQL using the Cobalt package but it says it detected an installation. I then logged in as root and typed in locate mysql and only /home/chiliasp/odbc/direct/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/ivmysql15.po was found and assume that it is the ChiliASP driver. Should I delete that file?

I also typed in both rpm -q -a | grep "MySQL" and rpm -q -a | grep "mysql" and nothing came up both times. What else do I need to do to be able to reinstall MySQL? I know very little Linux and would appreciate help in what commands need to be used.

Also, know of any good sites that I can use to learn the basics of Linux? I want to try and learn it more.

Edit: I just attempted to reinstall MySQL from the command line and got the following error: 4015 Found existing MySQL data - leaving unchanged

Thanks,
Scott

After trying to reinstall and uninstall a couple times, I logged in as root and typed in locate mysql and it found some folders and files including /home/mysql but when i try to delete the directories with rm -fr, it says they are not found. locate found mysql.sock in /home/tmp but it said it could not be found when I tried to delete it. Why are these directories showing up when I use locate but cannot be found when using cd and rm? Locate shows mysql.sock in /home/tmp even right after the reinstall. Where should it be put because that does not seem right to me?

Edit: Now I'm really getting frustrated. I now cannot install any packages. When I attempt to install a package it says "cannot open binary file". I even rebooted and it still does it. I appreciate any and all help on this.

Thanks in advance,
Scott