I am in need of some assistance with my server. I attempted to install PHP 5.4.4 (upgrading from PHP 5.3) on my CentOS 6 64bit server, and it ended up corrupting the mysql.sock.

Well, after looking up help for that, the most common solution was to uninstall and then reinstall MySQL.

I did that.. or rather, I attempted to. I wound up uninstalling MySQL using

yum remove mysql

After that, I ran

yum install mysql

The first error I got was resolved, that being an incorrect epel for my server, and now I am presented with this when I run the above code:

[root@u16585982 ~]# yum install mysql
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Setting up Install Process
Determining fastest mirrors
epel/metalink                                            |  11 kB     00:00
 * epel: mirror.steadfast.net
 * rpmforge: mirror.team-cymru.org
base                                                     | 3.7 kB     00:00
base/primary_db                                          | 4.6 MB     00:00
epel                                                     | 4.4 kB     00:00
epel/primary_db                                          | 6.6 MB     00:00
extras                                                   | 3.4 kB     00:00
extras/primary_db                                        |  31 kB     00:00
rpmforge                                                 | 1.9 kB     00:00
rpmforge/primary_db                                      | 2.7 MB     00:00
updates                                                  | 3.4 kB     00:00
updates/primary_db                                       | 3.9 MB     00:00
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package mysql.x86_64 0:5.1.73-5.el6_6 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: mysql-libs = 5.1.73-5.el6_6 for package: mysql-5.1.73-5.el6_6.x86_64
--> Running transaction check
---> Package mysql-libs.i686 0:5.1.73-5.el6_6 will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error:  Multilib version problems found. This often means that the root
       cause is something else and multilib version checking is just
       pointing out that there is a problem. Eg.:

         1. You have an upgrade for mysql-libs which is missing some
            dependency that another package requires. Yum is trying to
            solve this by installing an older version of mysql-libs of the
            different architecture. If you exclude the bad architecture
            yum will tell you what the root cause is (which package
            requires what). You can try redoing the upgrade with
            --exclude mysql-libs.otherarch ... this should give you an error
            message showing the root cause of the problem.

         2. You have multiple architectures of mysql-libs installed, but
            yum can only see an upgrade for one of those arcitectures.
            If you don't want/need both architectures anymore then you
            can remove the one with the missing update and everything
            will work.

         3. You have duplicate versions of mysql-libs installed already.
            You can use "yum check" to get yum show these errors.

       ...you can also use --setopt=protected_multilib=false to remove
       this checking, however this is almost never the correct thing to
       do as something else is very likely to go wrong (often causing
       much more problems).

       Protected multilib versions: mysql-libs-5.1.73-5.el6_6.i686 != mysql-libs-5.5.44-1.el6.remi.x86_64

After that, I looked up what I could do to make this work, it said remove one, so I tried. The result was this:

[root@u16585982 ~]# yum remove mysql-libs-5.1.73-5.e16_6.i686
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Setting up Remove Process
No Match for argument: mysql-libs-5.1.73-5.e16_6.i686
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * epel: mirror.steadfast.net
 * rpmforge: mirror.team-cymru.org
No Packages marked for removal

So I am stuck where I am at.

Can anyone help me figure this out?

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When I run

rpm -qa | grep mysql

The result is:

mysql-connector-odbc-5.1.5r1144-7.el6.x86_64
mysql-libs-5.5.44-1.el6.remi.x86_64
php-mysql-5.4.42-1.el6.remi.x86_64
compat-mysql51-5.1.54-1.el6.remi.x86_64