How to upgrade mysql server

How can i upgrade mysql version 5.0.22 to version 5.0.51a ??

My server info:

Linux version 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5 (gcc version 4.1.1 20070105 (Red Hat 4.1.1-52)

Thanks

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• Instructions on handling mysql upgrades, regarding the db itself, are in mysql documentation. When you change minor version (eg. form 5.0.x to 5.0.y) there usually isn't very much to do (if anything at all) - although there can always be some minor tweaks here and there.

  Instructions about upgrading a package on your distro are in the documentation of your distro.

  All in all, I do recommend you to follow the usual updates that come with your distribution of choice. If they bundle some version of MySQL, stick with that unless you have a very good reason not to do so. For a db server, I'd upgrade the whole system rather than putting an 'external' package in the distro - but that's me.

  From Luke404