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

[Kevin Mark]

On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 02:00:51PM -0400, Sunny Dubey wrote:
> On Thursday 04 October 2007 18:19:20 Brandorr wrote:
> > Do I install in / ? Or in /usr  or in /usr/mysql5 or in /usr/mysql/5.0 ??
> 
> When you install MySQL or any app outside or what "is expected", you end up 
> having to specify all the new dirs here and there.  IE: /usr/mysql/5.0/lib 
> will need to be specified in /etc/ld.so.conf.  You'd have to 
> append /usr/mysql/5.0/{include} to the various ./configure and CCARGS/AUXLIBS 
> arguments, etc.  It gets messy pretty fast.
> 
> The FHS (part of the LSB) can easily tell you where to put mysql or any app.  
> But also keep in mind that whatever is on the / partition is kept minimal in 
> order to keep a system simple when booting into single user mode only.  (Some 
> of this may not be part of the standard but is done by convention and 
> ideology.)
This is seen in Debian (and others). /bin/ and /sbin/ are used for few
programs. The majority are in /usr/bin and /usr/sbin/. This is where
distrabution software goes. If you are installing other software like
your own hand rolled software it may be put in /opt.
-K
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