Background details on MySQL installation

[Rick Stevens]

Joseph Mello wrote:
> Looks simple. 
> 
> The books I was looking at were saying MySQL was in /usr/local/mysql
> Ok, I am also relatively new to Linux, so knowing where things are at,
> brings some comfort that I can find what I need to.

Please bottom post, Joseph.

If you install MySQL from the source tarball using the defaults:

	# configure
	# make
	# make install

it ends up in /usr/local/mysql.  If you build it so that it looks native
to the system:

	# configure --prefix=/
	# make
	# make install

it ends up the way it's distributed in Red Hat and FC1.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-admin at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-admin at redhat.com]
> On Behalf Of Alexander Dalloz
> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 12:23 PM
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Background details on MySQL installation
> 
> Am Fr, den 23.01.2004 schrieb Joseph Mello um 18:08:
> 
>>I am getting up to speed on MySQL. The folder locations for MySQL that
>>are used by FC1 don't match those mentioned in my MySQL books. Does
>>anyone know of a document that describes the details of the
>>configuration FC1 uses for the MySQL provided in the distro?
>>
>> 
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>JM
> 
> 
> /usr/share/doc/mysql-3.23.58/
> 
> But which folder locations do you mean? There is /var/lib/mysql where
> the DBs reside and where the socket is stored. The my.cnf is in /etc as
> normal and the pid file is created in /var/run/mysqld. Nothing mystique
> at all.
> 
> Alexander
> 
> 


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