Add alias to installed rpm - mysql

First a small situation sketch. We have CentOS 7 and we want to install the opensource version of Oreka (http://oreka.sourceforge.net/). However the software hasn't received updates since 2013.
So we found that in the install script it looks for the rpm package mysql-server. But rpm -q returns package not found since the name is mysql-community-server now. So the question is can we add the alias "mysql-server" somehow to "mysql-community-server" to fool the script. This would be more convenient than rebuilding the install script/package.

You can make your own empty RPM that "Provides" mysql-server and "Requires" mysql-community-server to do this kind of aliasing. You can call it something like mysql-server-compat-myorg.

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Installing MySQL and MySQLWorkbench In Offline Red Hat 7 Machine

I am trying to install mysql workbench on a system without network. I downloaded the mysql-workbench-community, mysql-community-{server, client, common, libs} which were noted in the "Installing RPM Packages" section of MySQL Install Manual. It states that these are the standard rpm packages needed for a basic functional install of mysql community. So with that I downloaded all the rpm packages and attempted to manually install each using:
sudo rpm -ivh mysql-community-package-name.rpm
Unfortunately I keep getting dependency errors. I found this link to obtain all the dependencies for a package. So on my second attempt I ran the following:
Repoquery -R --resolve --recursive mysql-community-server | xargs -r yumdownloader
Which gave me about 100 rpm packages. I transferred them onto my machine and unfortunately more dependencies like mysql-connectors-community and mysql-=tools-community came up which were never documented or mentioned as dependencies with the script.
What am i doing wrong? Is there a way to download all the rpms and bundle them together as a custom RPM in the future? I see ubuntu has a apt-offline command mentioned here. Is there a similar method I can apply for redhat?
Update1:
I have an idea to create a container rhel7 instance, mounting /root/tmpkg and running this example. But is there another way I should consider?

Why can't I uninstall mysql-5.5 & install mysql-5.6 on Amazon Linux machine?

I'm on a 64-bit Amazon Linux machine.
I had previously installed mysql-server 5.5. (using sudo yum install)
However, I soon found out that my application requires MySql-serve 5.6.
So I uninstalled mysql-server 5.5. (using sudo yum remove mysql-server) and now I'm following these instruction to install mysql-server 5.6.
But I'm running into a problem.
when I try to do the second install, I get the following 2 errors:
file /usr/lib64/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.18 from install of mysql-community-libs-5.6.14-3.el6.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mysql55-libs-5.5.46-1.10.amzn1.x86_64
file /etc/my.cnf from install of mysql-community-server-5.6.14-3.el6.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mysql-config-5.5.46-1.10.amzn1.x86_64
Why on earth am I getting these two errors? How do I fix them?
I removed mysql-server-5.5, so why is it conflicting with 5.6?
I did ls on /etc/my.cnf and /usr/lib64/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.18 and the files don't even exist!! If the files don't exist how can they be conflicting with other files?? Who can help explain this?
PS, I tried #msknapp's explanation here: Can't install MySQL 5.6 by RPM, however I don't know what to do after step #1 to install the rpm. I think that step is left unstated.
mysql-server (of whatever version) depends on other packages ( in your case mysql-community-libs mysql-community-server)
When it is installed in the first place with the old version this stuff is installed. When you "uninstall" mysql-server these dependencies are NOT removed.
When you try and install the new version these still existing packages will conflict with the new package. It does not matter if the actual files in the package are there, it is the package and it's listing of what to expect that conflicts.
To resolve your problem figure out what the dependencies of mysql-server were and uninstall them before attemping the install.
This answer https://superuser.com/questions/294662/how-to-get-list-of-dependencies-of-non-installed-rpm-package may be of interest for working out what mysql-server depends on

undoing damage from wrong /etc/apt/sources.list

I had the wrong ubuntu version listed in /etc/apt/sources.list some (it listed precise instead of trusty) which I only discovered after a full day of workarounds for packages that wouldn't install automatically. Now everything is back to speed except for a few remaining troublemakers, libglu and libboost
root#brain2:/home/jeremy# apt-get install libglu1-mesa libglu1-mesa-dev
Reading package lists... Done
libglu1-mesa is already the newest version.
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
libglu1-mesa-dev : Depends: libgl1-mesa-dev but it is not going to be installed or libgl-dev
I've tried the usual drill of
apt-get -f install
dpkg --configure -a
apt-get clean
apt-get update
apt-get upgrate
but they do not avail me. Any advisory information appreciated.
Its hard to tell if you fixed your /apt/etc/sources.list without knowing what your ubuntu version is and the contents of the file. Here are some commands that may help you troubleshoot, or someone with more experience than me might comment on:
apt-cache policy <package>
rmadison <package>
The apt-cache policy command will essentially tell you, from your /etc/apt/services.list file, what versions of that package apt sees as available to download. Official documentation is available here:
https://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/sect.apt-cache.html
The rmadison command performs a similar function but with a key difference. Instead of looking at what you have in /etc/apt/services.list, it queries Debian archives to see what versions of the package are available. The Debian man page on rmadison is here:
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/natty/man1/rmadison.1.html
If the results from apt-cache policy differs from rmadison, it may indicate that you haven't correctly told apt what versions it should be looking for.

Automatically install build dependencies prior to building an RPM package

I am trying to build a .rpm package. I have just followed the steps to do that. Till now all steps were gone fine but now i just stuck with this step. I just ran the following command and got this error:
rpmbuild -ba asterisk.spec
error: Failed build dependencies:
gtk2-devel is needed by asterisk-1.8.12.2-1.fc15.x86_64
libsrtp-devel is needed by asterisk-1.8.12.2-1.fc15.x86_64
[... more ...]
freetds-devel is needed by asterisk-1.8.12.2-1.fc15.x86_64
uw-imap-devel is needed by asterisk-1.8.12.2-1.fc15.x86_64
I am using fedora-15. How to resolve this error?
How I do install all depencencies during installation of src.rpm package. Is it possible?
You can use the yum-builddep command from the yum-utils package to install all the build dependencies for a package.
The arguments can either be paths to spec files, paths to source RPMs or the names of packages which exist as source RPMs in a configured repository, for example:
yum-builddep my-package.spec
or
yum-builddep my-package.src.rpm
The same thing can be achieved on newer versions of Fedora that use dnf as their package manager by making sure that dnf-plugins-core is installed and then doing:
dnf builddep my-package.spec
or
dnf builddep my-package.src.rpm
yum-builddep doesn't seem to work if the mirror you use doesn't serve source RPMs. This may not handle all cases, but it usually works for me:
sudo yum install -y $(<rpmbuild> | fgrep 'is needed by' | awk '{print $1}')
where <rpmbuild> is your rpmbuild command (e.g., rpmbuild -ba foo.spec).
On PHP building - especially phpbrew I used dnf builddep php, it worked.

Installing sphinx on Dreamhost

I'm following this tutorial: http://hughevans.net/2009/03/10/thinking-sphinx-dreamhost
I'm run into an issue when I run:
./configure --prefix=$HOME/local/ --exec-prefix=$HOME/local/
I get an error: "cannot find MySQL include files."
I've checked and cant find mysql_config, so I'm guessing the mysql-devel package isn't installed.
My next step is to install the mysql-devel package from source, but I'm thinking that I may be missing something.
Has anyone found a solution for this issue?
(I'm using a VPS)
My next step is to install the mysql-devel package from source
Why from source?
Suggest just using a package manager to install the package.
I solved my problem by using a different user with root access.
With that user I installed sphinx with APT.
sudo apt-get install sphinxsearch