Installing MySQL on CentOS 5

I have doing some installs of CentOS 5, and I have come across a couple of problems, 

 1) it seems that the Mysql install is either incomplete or doesn't work so it was necessary to get the latest version using yum. 

yum install php-mysql mysql mysql-server

/sbin/chkconfig --levels 235 mysqld on

/etc/init.d/mysqld start

and 2) The php build while it is a recent one does not include the php-mysql drivers.  So the 'php-mysql' will install the mysql drivers. 

Hope this helps somebody because it took me a little while to find it.

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