install_driver(mysql) failed: Can't load '/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.so' for module DBD::mysql: /usr/lib64/libmysqlclient.so.15: version `libmysqlclient_15' not found (required by /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.so) at /usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/DynaLoader.pm line 230.
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After a lot of mucking around I noticed that the MySQL-shared-community RPM was installed, not the MySQL-shared-compat RPM like my usual installs. So…
rpm -Uvh MySQL-shared-compat-5.1.33-0.rhel5.x86_64.rpm
