[nylug-talk] Is there a general best practice location to install mysql?

[Chris Knadle]

On Thursday 04 October 2007, Brandorr wrote:
> I am compiling it and want to match any typical filesystem locations
> for installation.
>
> Do I install in / ? Or in /usr  or in /usr/mysql5 or in /usr/mysql/5.0 ??

   Browsing through the Filesystem Hierarchy Standards will answer the crux of 
this question:
      http://www.pathname.com/fhs/

   Or, alternatively, you could download an RPM or a DEB of MySQL and open it 
up to find out where the package installs the various MySQL files.  That 
isn't that difficult.  DEB packages can be directly decompressed with 'ar', 
too, and after opening that, there's a duplicate directory structure of where 
files are put on the actual system.
   If you have access to a Debian-like system, you don't even have to 
decompress the DEB package to examine that hirearchy; 'dpkg -c <package>' 
will list it all out.

   However; just like the first responder asked -- if the system you're 
installing MySQL on has any kind of package management, it's really best to 
use it and install a MySQL package for your distribution.  For many of 
reasons.

   -- Chris

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Chris Knadle
Chris.Knadle at coredump.us