[root@ns1 pdns]# yum search mysql-server Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files Excluding Packages from CentOS-5 - Base Finished Excluding Packages from CentOS-5 - Updates Finished Reducing CentOS-5 - Plus to included packages only Finished No Matches found ---- mysql.i386 5.0.22-2.1.0.1 installed Matched from: mysql MySQL client programs and shared libraries. MySQL is a multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server. MySQL is a client/server implementation consisting of a server daemon (mysqld) and many different client programs and libraries. The base package contains the MySQL client programs, the client shared libraries, and generic MySQL files.