Che roba vuol dire:

ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local Mysql server through socket
'/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)


.....

se cerco di rimuovere l'rpm

[root@ares]rpm -e mysql-server-3.23.54a-11
error package mysql-server-3.23.54a.11 is not installed

allora faccio

[root@ares] rpm -ivh mysql-server-3.23.54a-11.i386.tpm
error: Failed dependencies
Mysql-server conflicts with mysql-server-3.23.54a-11

Bho ... si decida pure lui

byez e grazie