Adding mysql/bin dir to my path

[Paul Howarth]

Mark Sargent wrote:
> Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
>> Mark Sargent wrote:
>>
>>> am wishing to add mysql/bin to my path on FC3. How is this done.? My 
>>> book doesn't seem to cover it specifically and googling was not so 
>>> clear on it. Cheers.
>>
>>
>>
>> Presumably this is a locally built version of mysql since the FC3 
>> mysql has binaries installed in /usr/bin?
>>
>> If you want to do this for just one account, tweak that accounts's 
>> .bash_profile to add the entry.
>>
>> If you want to do this system-wide, you probably want to add entries 
>> to /etc/profile.d to add the directory into the PATH variable at the 
>> appropriate place.
>>
>> Paul.
>>
> Hi All,
> 
> Paul, I had problems with the FC3 rpm for mysql, so I installed via the 
> tar file. Following the mysql install faq, it said to place mysql in, 
> /usr/local/mysql. Should I move it to the same dir the rpm would have 
> installed it to get the paths right..? Cheers.

I think you'd be much better off addressing the problems you're having 
with the FC3 mysql installation.

But if you really want to use the one in /usr/local/mysql, you could 
always put:

PATH=/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH

in your ~/.bash_profile

That should take effect next time you log in.

Paul.