Comments on: Howto Install MySQL on Linux

By: marcos

marcos — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:34:37 +0000

Very good…. ! I’m a newbie on MySQL.. and it helped me in installtion.

Thanks a TON

By: mustaq shah owaisi

mustaq shah owaisi — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 07:10:01 +0000

thanks for writing in easy format

By: Avinash Bhageloe

Avinash Bhageloe — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 01:21:08 +0000

Thanx a lot. This information helpt me alot

Regards,
Avinash Bhageloe

By: MySQL Tutorial: Install, Create DB and Table, Insert and Select Records

MySQL Tutorial: Install, Create DB and Table, Insert and Select Records — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 06:04:15 +0000

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By: Peri

Peri — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:31:25 +0000

Hi,

I have successfully installed mysql in my linux machine but can any one know , why after installing all the 3 rpms (client/server/devel) the version is reflected with “unknown -linux” instead of red-hat
rpm’s used for my installation below.

MySQL-devel-community-5.1.58-1.rhel5.x86_64.rpm
MySQL-server-community-5.1.58-1.rhel5.x86_64.rpm
MySQL-client-community-5.1.58-1.rhel5.x86_64.rpm

[root@localhost peri]# mysql -V
mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.1.58, for unknown-linux-gnu (x86_64) using readline 5.1

By: Al-Imran Bin Al-Awad

Al-Imran Bin Al-Awad — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 21:58:33 +0000

Great article for a newbie like me. Thanks Sir right from UAE

By: santosh

santosh — Sun, 22 May 2011 14:02:25 +0000

thank u so much with helpful these document

By: siros

siros — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 23:47:11 +0000

Thank you so much great article.

my first source installation.

By: jen

jen — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 06:34:04 +0000

wow this article really helped but i did all my installation with , how to change it to mysql user

By: martin

martin — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:32:37 +0000

INSTALLING MYSQL WITHOUT ACCESS TO ROOT ACCOUNT:

1. Download MySQL Community Server 5.5.8 Linux – Generic Compressed TAR Archive
2. Unpack it. For example to: /home/martin/mysql
3. Create my.cnf file in your home directory. File contains:

[server]
user=martin
basedir=/home/martin/mysql
datadir=/home/martin/sql_data
socket=/home/martin/socket
port=3666

4. Go to /home/martin/mysql directory and execute:

./scripts/mysql_install_db –defaults-file=~/my.cnf –user=martin –basedir=/home/martin/mysql –datadir=/home/martin/sql_data –socket=/home/martin/socket

–defaults-file must be the first paremeter! Otherwise it won’t work. It’s mysql bug.

5. Your mysql server is ready. Start it with command:

./bin/mysqld_safe –defaults-file=~/my.cnf &

6. Connecting to server:

mysql -h 127.0.0.1 -P 3666 -u root -p (using tcp)
or
mysql –socket=/home/martin/socket -u root -p (using unix socket)

7. Shutting down server:

mysqladmin -h 127.0.0.1 -P 3666 -u root shutdown(using tcp)
or
mysqladmin –socket=/home/martin/socket -u root shutdown (using unix socket)