Unable to connect to newer mysql database – Client Does Not Support Authentication Protocol Requested By Server, Consider Upgrading MySQL Client

Kept getting the message ‘Client Does Not Support Authentication Protocol Requested By Server, Consider Upgrading MySQL Client’ after upgrading the mysql server to a newer version than the client odbc driver and after much trawling found that you have to update the mysql user table to hold the password in the old format like so.. UPDATE mysql.userSET password=OLD_PASSWORD(‘somepassword’)WHERE user=’someuser’AND host=’somehost’;… Continue reading Unable to connect to newer mysql database – Client Does Not Support Authentication Protocol Requested By Server, Consider Upgrading MySQL Client

GD Lib with Bugzilla

Trying to get libpng and libjpeg support ??  You will need to install the developer versions of the libraries, on Fedora the easiest way is to use up2date ie. up2date libjpeg-devel and up2date libpng-devel this will install it then the configure for the makefile of libgd will pick the libraries up and install support for them. Also dont use the… Continue reading GD Lib with Bugzilla

Apache2 and PHP5 and missing apxs file on Fedora Core 3

Ok next problem that I bumped into today while trying to install PHP5 on Apache2.  In the php instructions it tells you to use the –with-apxs2 and point that to the apxs file.  Now the standard install of Fedora 3 doesnt install this file for you, so you need to install the httpd-devel package.  This can be done easily using… Continue reading Apache2 and PHP5 and missing apxs file on Fedora Core 3

Checkpassword-0.90 Compilation Error on Fedora Core 3

Ok now next problem that I ran into in trying to get qmail running on the distrubution is that checkpassword-0.90 doesnt want to compile and looking on the web there is 1 arabic website explaining how to get around this which I cant understand but with again more pain I have finally cracked it. In the source directory of checkpassword… Continue reading Checkpassword-0.90 Compilation Error on Fedora Core 3

Getting the Source Code for the Kernel of Linux Fedora 3 Distribution

Fedora no longer installs the source for its installations so if you need to rebuild the kernel you will need to get the source the easiest way is as follows: up2date –get-source kernel Install kernel-.src.rpm (given the default RPM configuration, the files this package contains will be written to /usr/src/redhat/) [NOTE: if this fails you should find the kernel src… Continue reading Getting the Source Code for the Kernel of Linux Fedora 3 Distribution

Building the Linux-ATM software on Fedora Core 3 on a VIA C3 Processor

Recently I built the linux-atm software, which is an atm utility which allows me to use my pci ADSL card on linux. The latest release is version 2.4.1 which I pulled down off of sourceforge, and I then tried to compile it.  This is what I fell fowl of.. 1. The source has four compilation errors which are at lines with… Continue reading Building the Linux-ATM software on Fedora Core 3 on a VIA C3 Processor