Can't install MySQL 4.0.24

[hitman]

I'm starting a tutorial in PHP and MySQL and eventually I need MySQL to be installed on my computer.
Well, I've downloaded version 4.0.24, but when I try to run the Setup file from my computer , I get this error:

http://www.ddrcom.net/mysql_error.gif



Why can't it run properly? I'm on Windows XP Home SP2

[NogDog]

Hmmm...I did a 4.1 installation on my WinXP Home SP2 machine not too long ago with no problem. Afraid I don't have any good suggestions, except to try MySQL 4.1 (http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/4.1.html) instead of 4.0, perhaps?

[Stephen Philbin]

Well I don't know anything about windows, but I do know that you don't really want that version of MySQL. Try and get version 4.1.7 or higher. Versions 4.0.+ to versions 4.1.2(ish) are a right mess. lots of key changes were made to many versions arround there and as a consequence consistency is simply non existent and what might work on one version of MySQL has a significant chance of not working on another version with only a small version number difference.

4.1.7 and up has far more features, the features are far more stable and they're also vastly more consistent. (I wouldn't go for anything in the version 5.0 and upwards range though. Last I checked, they're not yet finalised.)