Prob MySQL, PHP, Apache

[and]

i am a newbabe in linux i have got Red Hat 8, and try to run Apache with

MySQL and php.
i have installed Apache-2.0.32, MySQL-3.23.49 even when all the instalations

seems to be all right ( they are under usr/local/) when i test the rpm they

seem no to be there
:(

[root@localhost]# rpm -qa |grep sql
postgresql-libs-7.2.2-1

[root@localhost]# rpm -q php
php-4.2.2-8.0.5

[root@localhost]#rpm -q httpd
httpd-2.0.40-8

seems that mysql has not been intalled, but the folder has been created and I

can use it i mean create DB , tables etc...
./configure
make
make install

when i try to reopen the file mysqlXXXXXXXXi386.rpm from the cd a message

is display saying that this package has been already installed.

Any sugestion would be great

And

[Doug G]

If you didn't install mysql from an rpm then you won't see that it's installed with rpm -q

[and]

i did not, i use Gnome to upzip (by double clicking in the icon) and after just "./configure" "make" "make install".
shoould i do it with the rpm command?
thanks

[Ravenous]

Perhaps you need to start the service?

bash% service mysqld start

[TowerOfPower]

http://www.devside.net/web/server/linux/mysql-bin