From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 17 19: 0:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp012.mail.yahoo.com (smtp012.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 757F637B402 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 19:00:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from ci592716-c.valleyst1.ky.home.com (HELO Kaiser) (24.251.253.28) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 18 Jan 2002 03:00:49 -0000 Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 22:01:02 -0500 From: Donnie Jones To: "Allen May" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help installing MySQL Message-Id: <20020117220102.118a032e.donniejones18@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <184701c19fcb$20ae5d00$0401a8c0@Hewey> References: <184701c19fcb$20ae5d00$0401a8c0@Hewey> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.6 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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 Thu, 17 Jan 2002 21:52:11 -0500 "Allen May" wrote: > I have just installed FreeBSD4.4 and now I need to install MySQL. I am soo stumped, I don't know where to begin. > I have downloaded the FreeBSD install TGZ file form MySQL.org. I have read the INSTALL-BINARIES file, and I'm lost. > Why can't this be as easy as installing RPM's? > > Is there a step by step process on the web that could hold my hand through this painful process? > > Thanks > > -Allen May > > Have you tried the mysql server package from the FBSD ports collection? -Donnie _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message