Available RPM Packages

• The following RPM packages are available:
  • MySQL-server-VERSION.i386.rpm
  • MySQL-client-VERSION.i386.rpm
  • MySQL-bench-VERSION.i386.rpm
    • Tests and benchmarks
    • Requires Perl
  • MySQL-devel-VERSION.i386.rpm
    • Libraries and include files needed to compile other MySQL clients, such as the Perl modules.
  • MySQL-shared-VERSION.i386.rpm
    • Contains shared libraries (libmysqlclient.so*) that certain languages and applications need to dynamically load and use MySQL.
    • Contains single-threaded and thread-safe libraries.
    • Install this package or the MySQL-shared-compat package, but not both.
  • MySQL-shared-compat-VERSION.i386.rpm
    • Contains single-threaded and thread-safe libraries.
    • Install this package instead of MySQL-shared if installed applications are dynamically linked against older versions of MySQL.
  • MySQL-embedded-VERSION.i386.rpm
    • The embedded MySQL server library.
  • MySQL-VERSION.src.rpm
    • Contains the source code for all of the previous packages.
    • It can also be used to rebuild the RPMs on other architectures.
      • Alpha
      • SPARC

How do I install an RPM package?

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