I need (or at least would very much like) one of the new features in
mysql version 5. I currently have 4.1.x on my Slackware 9.1 system.

Has anyone here installed mysql 5.0.1 on their Slackware system? Was
it easy? Were there any tweaks needed?

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Chris Green

On 2004-11-17, usenet@isbd.co.uk <usenet@isbd.co.uk> wrote:
> I need (or at least would very much like) one of the new features in
> mysql version 5. I currently have 4.1.x on my Slackware 9.1 system.
>
> Has anyone here installed mysql 5.0.1 on their Slackware system? Was
> it easy? Were there any tweaks needed?
>


Go for it, MySQL builds fine. One thing: I ran into trouble trying to make it
adhere to the seperate directories. MySQL wants to do: /usr/local/mysql (all
in that branch) by default. Had I spent more time on it, I probably could've
gotten it to fit in the normal way, but this way works fine as well. Just make
sure you define where the mysql socket will go. You can even add SSL support,
which is one thing I had brought up, but I guess wasn't implemented in the
packaged build.
There's an info file plus full docs to follow step by step.

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jayjwa <jayjwa@nowhere.org> wrote:
> On 2004-11-17, usenet@isbd.co.uk <usenet@isbd.co.uk> wrote:
> > I need (or at least would very much like) one of the new features in
> > mysql version 5. I currently have 4.1.x on my Slackware 9.1 system.
> >
> > Has anyone here installed mysql 5.0.1 on their Slackware system? Was
> > it easy? Were there any tweaks needed?
> >
>
>
> Go for it, MySQL builds fine. One thing: I ran into trouble trying to make it
> adhere to the seperate directories. MySQL wants to do: /usr/local/mysql (all
> in that branch) by default. Had I spent more time on it, I probably could've
> gotten it to fit in the normal way, but this way works fine as well. Just make
> sure you define where the mysql socket will go. You can even add SSL support,
> which is one thing I had brought up, but I guess wasn't implemented in the
> packaged build.
> There's an info file plus full docs to follow step by step.
>
OK, thanks, I've installed 5.0.1 successfully now. As you say it puts
*everything* in /usr/local/mysql but I can live with that. After a
reboot and correcting the startup lline in rc.local all seems well. I
had a bit of fun and games getting it to see my databases and also
with user permissions etc. but I've got that all sorted now.

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Chris Green