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

[Gregg Levine]

On 10/4/07, Chris Knadle <Chris.Knadle at coredump.us> wrote:
> 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
>
> --
>
> Chris Knadle
> Chris.Knadle at coredump.us
>
Hello!
I agree. Normally, and before Slackware added the MySQL concept and
even PHP (For some strange reason the two go together like lox (smoked
salmon) and eggs and onions) I would do exactly what Brian is doing
and typically I would check to see what the auto* scripts wanted. Now
I simply add the packages and go along with that method that was
default.

Brian what distro are you building? If this is what I think it is,
tell me at the next group meeting.
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