From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 6 00:19:33 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4842316A4CE for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 00:19:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF17543D2F for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 00:19:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joshua.lokken@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 58so223829wri for ; Wed, 05 Jan 2005 16:19:32 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=S1/2BHjzb2H7J4KyFkSD+Y/vOzwIf3CBXbAWEsroElniiVIT79Rv2XEehRYbrNddcu+szFCeDzLitKJzXwIt7SYbWklzBEPoThVWADk4hake4hsi76In7kiHCbiPMRFztqmVIl1HdnYQrAdMRYLqQ34aMwkS+mEBCWMcH5npmXE= Received: by 10.54.53.9 with SMTP id b9mr109333wra; Wed, 05 Jan 2005 16:19:32 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.11.33 with HTTP; Wed, 5 Jan 2005 16:19:32 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 18:19:32 -0600 From: Joshua Lokken To: Leon In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <001401c4e38e$2b49bb10$a23db918@D1TWQX41> <000e01c4f369$f5373c50$a23db918@D1TWQX41> cc: Questions Subject: MySQL X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Joshua Lokken List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 00:19:33 -0000 From: Joshua Lokken Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 18:16:40 -0600 Subject: Re: MySQL To: Leon Cc: Questions On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 16:03:08 -0500, Leon wrote: > Hi, > > I have a 5.3 version of FreeBSD. > I want to install MySQL > > Can you please tell me what version of MySQL I should install? > And where can I get installation and configuration instruction? > > Thanks, > Leon. > While I certainly don't mind being mailed off-list, I'll assume that you intended to submit this question to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. I have forwarded it appropriately. I would recommend you use the ports collection to install MySQL and any other software that you need. In order to ensure that you have the most recent ports collection, you should learn to use cvsup. There is excellent information on this in the Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html I believe that versions 3.23, 4.0, 4.1, and even a version of 5 of MySQL exist in the ports collection. I have experience only with 4.1, so I can't attest to which you _should_ use, also I don't know what your intended use is, but 4.1 should be just fine. Once you have the ports collection up-to-date, you can install MySQL by doing: # cd /usr/ports/databases/mysql41-server # make install clean HTH, -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate