Fedora Core 3 ships with MySQL 3.23. To upgrade to the latest version of MySQL, go to the MySQL downloads page and download all the Linux RPMS:
- MySQL-server-4.1.11-0
- MySQL-shared-4.1.11-0
- MySQL-client-4.1.11-0
- MySQL-bench-4.1.11-0
- MySQL-devel-4.1.11-0
- MySQL-shared-compat-4.1.11-0
Stop your MySQL server and install all the RPMs with the following command:
# rpm -Uvh MySQL-*
As root run
# mysql_fix_privilege_tables