From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 22 8:28:44 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 CBDFE37B400 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 08:28:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clientmail.ehsrealtime.com (eris.ehsrealtime.com [213.52.146.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4EE543E5E for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 08:28:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wayne@penguinpowered.org.uk) Received: from set.ehsrealtime.com ([213.52.146.197]) by clientmail.ehsrealtime.com with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17Wf6b-0005Hl-01; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 16:28:13 +0100 Received: from waynep by set.ehsrealtime.com with local (Exim 3.34 #1) id 17Wg2m-0000OS-00; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 16:28:20 +0000 From: Wayne Pascoe To: "MET" Cc: Subject: Re: MySQL Installation References: <001601c23194$7a136f10$6a01a8c0@SURVIVAL> Date: 22 Jul 2002 16:28:19 +0000 In-Reply-To: <001601c23194$7a136f10$6a01a8c0@SURVIVAL> Message-ID: Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Civil Service) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 "MET" writes: > I was wondering if someone could be so kind as to write up > directions for installing MySQL that makes sense.  I've read all of > the documentation from their site that I can handle, and can take no > more.  Simply put I'm a Unix newbie, and their directions are > definitely for someone with more knowledge than I.  I've just > installed FreeBSD 4.6, clean install, without any GUI interface, CLI > strictly.  The purpose of MySQL is for nothing more than a mere web > database (I've been doing PHP + MySQL for years and figured I'd give > server technology a try). cd /usr/ports/databases/mysql323-server/ make install Hope that helps. -- - Wayne Pascoe - http://www.penguinpowered.org.uk/wayne/ Everything to excess. To enjoy the flavour of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks. - Robert Heinlein To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message