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

[Brandorr]

On 10/5/07, Peter C. Norton <spacey-nylug at lenin.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 06:19:20PM -0400, 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 ??
>
> Unless your distro has specific requirements (eg using arch or another
> symlink system), the norm is to install the binaries in /usr/bin,
> libraries in /usr/lib (or /usr/lib64 if you're going for a dual-abi),
> and have data in /var/mysql. Configuration should go either into /etc
> for a single file, /etc/mysql/ for configuration only, or sometimes
> /var/lib/mysql/ with symlinks /etc/mysql. I'm not clear why the last
> is done commonly, but I suspect it's so that everything important and
> relevant to the database is on the same filesystem and can be moved
> around as needed.

If that is the case how do people support concurrent installs of mysql 4 and 5?
>
> -Peter
>
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