On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 06:29:47PM -0600, Mac Martine wrote:
> hello-
>
> i just ran gunzip on the binary distribution i got from mysql.com (
> mysql-3.23.33.tar.gz ).
>
> The 'mysql_install_db' cannot be run because it has a '.sh' ending
> on it. Actually many of the files in that same folder have a '.sh'
> ending. (mysql_install_db.sh)
>
> Why is this, and what do I do!?
It sounds like you picked up the SOURCE distribution instead of the
BINARY distribution. The tarball filename should have been longer than
that.
Many of the MySQL scripts start life as foo.sh and are translated to
foo during the build process.
Jeremy
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