From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 17 19: 1:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C32A437B416 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 19:01:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0I31Oh18872; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 21:01:24 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 21:01:24 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Allen May Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help installing MySQL Message-ID: <20020118030124.GA53099@dan.emsphone.com> References: <184701c19fcb$20ae5d00$0401a8c0@Hewey> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <184701c19fcb$20ae5d00$0401a8c0@Hewey> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error 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 In the last episode (Jan 17), Allen May said: > 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? Because you didn't type pkg_add -r mysql-client mysql-server Much better than RPMs since it automatically downloads the binaries for you. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message