nicolaasuni added a comment - 2012-08-14 14:01 Failed dependency of php-mysql with libmysqlclient.so.16 on CentOS 6 I am unable to install php-mysql on CentOS 6 after installing MariaDB. This means that I am unable to use PHP with MariaDB. My system is an updated CentOS 6 Linux 2.6.32-279.2.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Jul 20 01:55:29 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Steps to reproduce: Import the MariaDB key: rpm --import http://yum.mariadb.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-MariaDB Ad the MariaDB repository: vim /etc/yum.repos.d/MariaDB.repo edit the file: [mariadb] name = MariaDB baseurl = http://yum.mariadb.org/5.5/centos6-x86 gpgcheck=1 Remove any previous MySQL and MAriaDB packages: yum -y remove mysql* yum -y remove MariaDB* Install all available MariaDB packages: yum -y install MariaBD* Installed: MariaDB-client.i686 0:5.5.25-1 MariaDB-common.i686 0:5.5.25-1 MariaDB-compat.i686 0:5.5.25-1 MariaDB-devel.i686 0:5.5.25-1 MariaDB-server.i686 0:5.5.25-1 MariaDB-shared.i686 0:5.5.25-1 MariaDB-test.i686 0:5.5.25-1 Trying to install php-mysql (required to use MariaDB with PHP): yum -y install php-mysql I get the error: Error: Package: php-mysql-5.3.3-14.el6_3.x86_64 (updates) Requires: libmysqlclient.so.16(libmysqlclient_16)(64bit) Available: mysql-libs-5.1.61-4.el6.x86_64 (base) libmysqlclient.so.16(libmysqlclient_16)(64bit) the file libmysqlclient.so.16 is present in /usr/lib as a link to libmysqlclient.so.16.0.0 : ls -lah /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.16* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Aug 14 14:55 /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.16 -> libmysqlclient.so.16.0.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2.0M Jun 22 01:49 /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.16.0.0 I searched online but I haven't found any solution to this problem.

Rasmus Johansson added a comment - 2012-08-14 14:23 Launchpad bug id: 1036675