hey friends I have install mysql on my centos linux systam successfully.
Here are the steps
install rpms
1) MySQL-shared-5.1.42-0.glibc23.i386.rpm
2) MySQL-client-5.1.42-0.glibc23.i386.rpm
3) MySQL-server-5.1.42-0.glibc23.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh package name
to check if it is install or not
rpm -qa | grep -i mysql
after installing server if it showing error like
Starting MySQL..Manager of pid-file quit without updating f[Fail]
then do this things
sestatus |grep -i mode
Current mode: enforcing
Mode from config file: enforcing
it should be like this
getsebool -a | grep -i mysq
allow_user_mysql_connect --> off
mysqld_disable_trans --> off
if this is the case then do this things
togglesebool allow_user_mysql_connect
o/p allow_user_mysql_connect: active
togglesebool mysqld_disable_trans
o/p mysqld_disable_trans: active
to make it permnent
setsebool -P mysqld_disable_trans=1 ntpd_disable_trans=1
set the root password and follow other steps .