Install An RPM Package

• Always verify package integrity prior to installation.

• Execute the following commands to install the server and client.

  rpm -i MySQL-server-VERSION.i386.rpm

  rpm -i MySQL-clent-VERSION.i386.rpm

• The server RPM places data under the /var/lib/mysql directory.

• The RPM also creates a login account for a user named mysql (if one does not exist) to use for running the MySQL server.
  • It also creates the appropriate entries in /etc/init.d/ to start the server automatically at boot time.

How do I go about installing MySQL using a source distribution?

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