From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 8 02:35:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA00238 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 02:35:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.cityip.co.za (ns.cityip.co.za [196.25.223.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA00230 for ; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 02:35:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wjv@cityip.co.za) Received: from wjv by ns.cityip.co.za with local (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0zRCQP-0006Db-00; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 11:31:57 +0200 Message-ID: <19981008113157.A23885@cityip.co.za> Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 11:31:57 +0200 From: Johann Visagie To: Jonathan Yu1 , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Some questions regarding mySQL (A DBMS) Mail-Followup-To: Jonathan Yu1 , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <361B7075.188526C3@shaw.wave.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <361B7075.188526C3@shaw.wave.ca>; from Jonathan Yu1 on Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 09:45:25AM -0400 X-PGP: ftp://ftp.cityip.co.za/users/wjv/pubkey.asc Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 07 Oct 1998 at 09:45 SAT, Jonathan Yu1 wrote: > > I want to know where I can find the newest version of mySQL for > freeBSD 2.2.7 or any other versions that will work on freeBSD. I > checked the site www.tcx.se which is the home page for mySQL and found > most of the bineries to be written for other systems such as Solaris. > Do you know what I should do? My current version is mySQL 3.21.29g > which is the one I found on the CDs. And it has many problems. MySQL is in the FreeBSD ports database. If you don't know how to use the ports, then read the relevant section in the handbook. The short-short version (which assumes that you have everything installed that you need) is: cd /usr/ports/databases/mysql ; make install Alternatively, download the package from: http://www.freebsd.org/ports/databases.html -- V Johann Visagie | Email: wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message