Steps that worked for me on redhat 8 and 9
- Download the server, client, and “Dynamic client libraries
(including 3.23.x libraries)” rpms. - rpm -Uvh --nodeps MySQL-server-4.0.16-0.i386.rpm
- rpm -Uvh MySQL-shared-compat-4.0.16-0.i386.rpm
- rpm -Uvh MySQL-client-4.0.16-0.i386.rpm