From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 17 19:18: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from deborah.paradise.net.nz (deborah.paradise.net.nz [203.96.152.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9296437B417 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 19:17:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from ss11232 (203-79-72-40.cable.paradise.net.nz [203.79.72.40]) by deborah.paradise.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07E3ED1D1B; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 16:17:54 +1300 (NZDT) From: rshea@opendoor.co.nz To: "Allen May" Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 16:16:45 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Help installing MySQL Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <3C484A6D.24659.1206051@localhost> In-reply-to: <184701c19fcb$20ae5d00$0401a8c0@Hewey> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) 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 > 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? > I'll second (or third) that comment about using pkg_add - it a very nice system. If you're new to FreeBSD you may find the chapter ... http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html ... a useful intro to the concepts whether for MySQL or loads of other great stuff. regards richard shea. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The Cuba Group PO Box 1864 Wellington New Zealand PH +64 4 496 5205 MO +64 21 296 6839 FX +64 4 496 5209 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message