From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 30 20: 5: 7 2002 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 59FFD37B400 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 20:05:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net (sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.21.156]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADDDC43E3B for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 20:05:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nkinkade@dsl-only.net) Received: from sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net (freebsd.localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net (8.12.5/8.12.4) with SMTP id g7V39K0j030576; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 20:09:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nkinkade@dsl-only.net) Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 20:09:15 -0700 From: Nathan Kinkade To: grant.cooper@nucleus.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mysql - which one to install? Message-Id: <20020830200915.7c2ca03e.nkinkade@dsl-only.net> In-Reply-To: <3D6FC1C9.20620.3581E054@localhost> References: <007a01c2507d$f5226000$2afececd@TCOOPER> <3D6FC1C9.20620.3581E054@localhost> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.8claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 19:04:41 -0700 "Corey Snow" wrote: > On 30 Aug 2002, at 17:35, Grant Cooper wrote: > > > I need some confirmation. I don't know what mysql I should install > > or additional sql add on's. I want to drive a small data base that > > can querry information to a webpage? > > > > I have php installed and I know it works. But I don't want to screw > > things up by installing the wrong thing? > > The simplest way to get mysql is to first cvsup your ports tree, then: > > #cd /usr/ports/databases/mysql > #make > #make install clean > > This will install version 3.23.51 (at least, as of a few days ago, > and I don't think any more recent additions have been made to the > ports tree). > > If you want to play on the bleeding edge, I think that you can get > the beta of 4.0 from mysql.com, but you'd be on your own getting it > installed and such. I'd stick with the latest port. I think he probably wants /usr/ports/databases/mysql323-server/ This port should also install the mysql-client which you will probably need to manage your databases. Nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message