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Date:      Mon, 22 Jul 2002 16:31:00 +0100
From:      Kevin Golding <kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk>
To:        MET <met@uberstats.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: MySQL Installation
Message-ID:  <WeiBEFB0UCP9EwWa@caomhin.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <001601c23194$7a136f10$6a01a8c0@SURVIVAL>
References:  <001601c23194$7a136f10$6a01a8c0@SURVIVAL>

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Someone, quite probably MET, once wrote:
>    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
# make install
# make clean

Congratulations :-)

You may want to read the following section of the handbook as it will
make so much of your life easier:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/ports.html

Kevin
-- 
kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk

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