Learning Mysql

Downloading and Verifying Files from the MySQL AB Web Site
We’ll now describe in detail the steps you need to follow to get MySQL up and running on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X systems. We’ll also describe how to start, stop,
and configure your MySQL server.
If you install MySQL using the packages provided by MySQL AB, you still need Apache,
PHP, and Perl for the later chapters in this book. You can instead follow the instructions to install the XAMPP integrated package to get everything you need. For Linux, you can also use packages provided by your distribution.
Downloading MySQL from the MySQL AB Web Site
The MySQL AB website usually has the very latest versions of the MySQL software.
To download from this website, follow these steps. Visit the MySQL AB downloads page at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads. Figure shows what this page looks like. Select the MySQL version that you want. You’ll normally want the latest Generally
Available (GA) release this is 5.0.67 at the time of writing. However, you can also download the cutting-edge beta version to tryout new features or to help identify problems before the new version becomes the general release. You’ll see along list of packages for the MySQL version you selected Figure shows part of this downloads page. Select the appropriate package to download for your system. In the following sections, we’ll tell you what this is for each operating system and installation approach. Before the file download starts, you’ll probably be asked to to pick a mirror server near you. Mirrors are servers that have identical copies of files for download, and are used to share the burden of many people downloading the packages. The
MySQL site uses an IP-to-location database to guess where you are and will suggest some nearby servers you can download from. Selecting a mirror will start the file download.

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