From: Dan Nelson
Date: February 7 2007 3:20am
Subject: Re: Updating from 4.0.20 to 5.0.27
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In the last episode (Feb 06), Tim Johnson said:
> I'm currently using OS linux slackware 10.0 with MySQL version 4.0.20
> I currently use python and rebol APIs to MySQL, not PHP.
> 
> I've downloaded mysql-standard-5.0.27-linux-i686.tar.gz
> Questions:
>   Should I first upgrade to to an intermediate version?
>     IF so, which?
>   URLs to relevant documentation?
> thanks
> tim

You can upgrade straight to 5.0.  You'll want to read the following
links.  The last two detail changes between the versions.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/upgrade.html
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/upgrading-from-4-0.html
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/upgrading-from-4-1.html

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	Dan Nelson
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