Installing MySQL - update, Stolzyboy?

[Norman Graham]

Hi Stolzyboy

Your sticky on installing MySQL on Linux is fine stuff indeed. I am, however, slightly mistrustful because the article was written in 1999 and there's been a lot of water under the bridge and we're now talking about kernel 2.4 if not 2.6 and also about MySQL 4.1.

There are a lot of tutorials out there. Some of them may be garbage (like this one (http://www.webdevelopersnotes.com/tutorials/sql/installing_mysql_on_linux.php3)). The MySQL manual is very good, but slightly confusing - on the download page it says to download a linux binary (single-file package), but on the manual page it says you should use the RPMs. Hmm ... I've downloaded both a single-file MySQL 4.1 tarball and also two RPMs (server and client).

Do you know of any reliable updates to that article from 1999? I'm also slightly uneasy because underneath the article there is a long list of comments from users, almost all of which say that they followed the instructions and had nothing but trouble.

Help?

Thanks

Norm :confused:

[Norman Graham]

Hi all

I finally followed the manual and used RPMs. Installation passed off without a hitch (MySQL 4.1.7) and the first test run seemed fine.

However, I still think an update would be a fine thing, Stolzyboy.

Now I just have to compile PHP - I'm a bit confused about which configure options I need for PHP5. I want XSLT, mysqli, xml - hmm ...

Norm :)

[LordShryku]

I think the instructions on the MySQL page should be fine. RPM's are restricted to only a couple distro's, and if we're going to do distro specific tutorials, we're going to end up leaving some people out.

BTW, when compiling, you can usually do a ./configure --help to get the list of compile options, their usage, and a brief description. I know this holds true for php.

[stolzyboy]

i've never had a problem using the install tut above...

not many things have changed for installing mysql from versions > and < the one in the tutorial...

and, there are ALWAYS people that comment on how installing doesn't work cuz of this or that...

i'll look around and see if there is a newer, more updated version though :)