[root@server Alexander]# yum install mysql-dev
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* base: pubmirrors.reflected.net
* epel: mirror.steadfast.net
* extras: centos.mbni.med.umich.edu
* rpmforge: fr2.rpmfind.net
* updates: yum.singlehop.com
Setting up Install Process
No package mysql-dev available.
Error: Nothing to do
Upon reading the 2nd reply to my topic I found that, that this package isn't available. HOWEVER, I did find (just for future reference to the poster and those that may encounter the same issue), that the correct package name is:
mysql-devel-5.1.52-1.el6.01
This pertains to how it is displayed in the yum package installer under:
System > Administration in CentOS 6 and MAY NOT APPLY TO ANY OTHER OS OR VERSION OF CentOS! I would also like to point out that I am using the x86_64 version of CentOS 6 (64bit version) so this may also be different in the 32bit version as well. Also I would like to point out I didn't expect 1.8.x and 1.9.x to be anything alike as I read all the changelogs, as clearly stated from my post (Sentence 2, Line 1), but simply assumed the Anope Dev-Team would have taken the time to carefully notate some of the issues with these packages as not EVERYONE is a software developer or an IT xD. Losing faith in a dev-team is rather easy these days as you look around at alpha, beta and RC state software that is available to users, most of it is poorly coded, introduces new features that very easily fails due to legacy hardware or software that it may rely on from the system. While the error I encountered is NOT a fatal error, it still leaves part of the core system UNBUILT and unusable, again I point out that not everyone is an IT or software developer and may not realize that anope doesn't require mysql, rather it is optional, but when seeing this error will assume, they cannot use the software as MySQL is a database system and "most" would assume that nicks, channels etc are stored in a database.
As to the point of only two folders being shown in the install directory, thank you for ensuring this was correct. As I am used to 1.8.x installing several files and directories under the parent folder, I was unsure what all should be showing (as there is no documentation to show that all this was compacted into such a small area). Also, the documentation for installing anope (included in the download) does not tell you to go into the directory build\ before trying to make and make install the compilation, rather to run it from the parent directory as would have been done in previous versions. I'm wondering, is this due to the fact that I allowed it to be compiled as a DEBUG version? Or was this a very simple line of text not changed from the previous documentation on installing services? The easiest bit of information is quick to be overlooked when making major changes to software, not a complaint per say, just a side note for future reference in case this was a fluke, it helps lessen confusion on other people trying to install this version.
In a final note I would like to point out that, installing the package I mentioned above, it fixed the error regarding mysqlclient package being missing, even after installing this in 4 different test accounts! Thank you katsklaw for pointing me in the right direction, although this was not the full filename, it still got me on the right track.
Please mark this issue as RESOLVED (for any dev-team reading the post). Thanks.