> -----Original Message-----
> Hey can someone provide me some help in installing and 
> configuring mysql ver3.23.51 on my Linux server? I downloaded 
> the file from mysql.com to my servers hard drive and now want 
> to install it. I right-clicked the installation file and 
> clicked install. It appears to have installed something, but 
> I can't find it. I looked in the /var/lib directories and 
> don't see anything. Though the installation steps are covered 
> somewhat on mysql.com, I'm still having problems as I'm 
> totally new to linux. 
> Any documented steps from a newbie's perspective or something 
> simple would be really helpful.
> Any help is appreciated. 

Default RedHat mysql server rpm install will go to /var/lib/mysql 
make sure you installed the server, and not just the client

run: find /usr/bin -name *mysql*
or look in /usr/bin

if you don't see safe_mysqld then you haven't installed the server

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