Installing MySQL - Learning MySQL - page 27

Change to the directory containing the MySQL RPM files you downloaded. This is
typically your home directory or your desktop directory. To change to the home di-
rectory of the user adam , you'd type:
# cd ~adam
The location of the desktop directory depends on the Linux distribution you use, but
is commonly the Desktop directory under the home directory. To change to the desktop
directory of the user adam , you'd type:
# cd ~adam/Desktop
You can then install the MySQL server and MySQL client RPMs (or upgrade any ex-
isting versions) by typing:
# rpm --upgrade --verbose --hash \
MySQL-server-5.0.22-0.i386.rpm MySQL-client-5.0.22-0.i386.rpm
If all goes well, your MySQL server should now be installed. We'll look at how to
configure it in “Configuring a Newly Installed Server,” later in this chapter.
Installing MySQL on Linux Using a gzipped Tar Archive from MySQL AB
Instead of using an installable package, you can download a compressed directory of
the MySQL executable and support files. This process is slightly more involved than
installation from a package.
Follow the instructions of “Downloading MySQL from the MySQL AB Web Site” and
download the appropriate package from the “Linux (non RPM package) downloads”
section of the MySQL AB downloads page. For this topic, select the “standard” pack-
age, rather than the “Max” or “debug” versions.
If you're unsure what to choose, try picking the Linux download at the top of the list.
This will be named something like mysql-standard-5.0.22-linux-i686.tar.gz .
For distribution, Linux software is often packaged using the tar program, and then this
package is compressed using the gzip program, so the final file often has the file ex-
tension .tar.gz or .tgz . A .tar file, or its gzipped version, is often referred to as a tar-
ball . You'll need to unpack, or untar, this package:
$ tar --gunzip --extract --file mysql-standard-5.0.22-linux-i686.tar.gz
The gunzip option asks the program to decompress the file first using the gunzip pro-
gram. Some browsers automatically decompress files that have a .gz extension; if you
get a message like “gzip: stdin: not in gzip format,” this has probably happened in your
case, and you can omit the gunzip option:
$ tar --extract --file mysql-standard-5.0.22-linux-i686.tar.gz
You should now have the directory: mysql-standard-5.0.22-linux-i686 . To keep things
simple, we'll call this the MySQL directory.