Quick question here.

Can someone help me out here and tell me how I can install MySQL on my server at home?

I need to download MySQL and install it.
For information, im running RedHat 7.2.

Any suggestions here would be very greatful. Thanks everyone.

R.

depending on which format your going to download.. there should be documentation on mysql's homepage about installing and setting up.. you should check it out. explaining a setup like that could require lots of typing.. this is more of a "I installed it, its not working, this is error, can anyone help me" type site.

http://www.mysql.com/

/usr/share/doc/mysql-3.23.41/manual.html

seems like the rpm route is best

a 100% Redhat 7.2 install installs mysql completely

I am having trouble starting mysql...see my post

Just got it running under Redhat 7.2

best to install EVERYTHING when installing Redhat
mysql was installed when I did an update to Redhat 7.2 from 7.1

login as root

Start server via:
/usr/bin/mysql_install_db
/usr/bin/safe_mysqld --user=root &

Start client via:
mysql

enter sql...
use mysql;
create table yiyi (n1 float);
insert into yiyi values (3.14159);
select * from yiyi;


There are instructions on how to
(1) run as a user other than root
(2) start automatically on booting Linux

enter at the prompt:
>locate mysql

enter the following into the location slot of netscape for documentation
file:/usr/share/doc/mysql-3.23.41/manual.html

this works for Redhat 7.2

much more work to be done

I logged out as root and logged in as myself and the server was still running and the sql worked!

i'd just install it off the cds you probably installed redhat with.

just pop them in and browse the RPMS directory for the appropriate .rpm file and then do this:

rpm -i mysql-xxxx.rpm

(where xxxx is the version and other misc info). this way you don't have to worry about downloading and incompatibility issues.