Installing and Configuring the MySQL on Linux
Installing and Configuring the MySQL on Linux
Configuration
Installation
Install the MySQL database, which includes the client as well as the server.
Download a Linux x86 non RPM package Standard version (gzipped tarfile) containing the latest production release of MySQL 5.0 from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.0.html. At the time of the writing of this document the latest version is 5.0.22 compiled with glibc-2.2.
Follow the installation instructions in the reference manual accessible at this URL http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/index.html. Click on 2. Installing and Upgrading MySQL. Click on 2.8 Installing MySQL on Other Unix-Like Systems.
NoteThe sequence of shell
commands specified at the beginning of this section are executed
with root privileges.