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Date:      Sun, 05 Feb 2006 22:00:13 +0100
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_K=F6nig?= <bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de>
To:        je killen <jekillen@prodigy.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: MySQL version for 6.0
Message-ID:  <43E6675D.5080903@cs.tu-berlin.de>
In-Reply-To: <b16cedcbfed0f13e3ab9101bf3a996c7@prodigy.net>
References:  <b16cedcbfed0f13e3ab9101bf3a996c7@prodigy.net>

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je killen schrieb:
> Greetings:
> I'm looking to find out if there is a current version of MySQL specific 
> for v6 FreeBSD on AMD64. I don't see one
> on the MySQL site and I don't know if I can successfully build it from 
> source on this machine.
> thanks;
> Jeff K

You can use FreeBSD's software management to install mysql. After you 
have installed FreeBSD you can install MySQL easily:

   pkg_add -r mysql41-server

Alternativeyl you can choose mysql323-server, mysql40-server or 
mysql50-server.

Add these lines to /etc/rc.conf:

   mysql_enable="YES"
   mysql_dbdir="/path/to/database/dir"       # this is optionally

Then run

   /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh start

That's all. Now you have set up a MySQL server.

Björn



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