Marie, Welcome to the wonderful world of Linux! Glad to hear your making the jump:) One of the major drawbacks (or bonuses depending on your point of view) is that you have to be familiar with the command line.
You mentioned you are on Redhat. There are two options here--either you could select to install MySQL when installing RedHat (it's an option during the installation process), or you can install it after (which it sounds like you're doing). The MySQL RPM files work VERY well. I recommend you download those. Just download them wherever (temp folder, home directory, etc...), change your mode to su at the command prompt and install via rpm -i [rpm_file_name.rpm]. You should now have MySQL installed! From there, enjoy the THOROUGH documentation. Not the most enjoyable reading, but MySQL is in my opinion, the best documented open source tool out there. I'm not sure what you're doing in the /usr/local directory--while MySQL puts stuff in the /usr directory during the installation process (/usr/lib/mysql if I recall correctly), you shouldn't need to go there during the installation process. Hope this helps, Kevin Williams On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 16:24, Marie Salas wrote: > Hello, > > I'm very new to this Linux OS, and just downloaded MYSQL and I'm having a problem. > > I downloaded your Mysql version Linux (x86, libc6) and once downloaded I was > unpacking the files from "File-Roller" that was part of the Linux Redhat > installation. When I went to extract the files and save in usr/local/ it gave me a > message saying I don't have permission. I am a super user of this computer. I don't > understand what the problem is. Also I'm confused about whether I should use the > terminal or if I can do this with GUI??? The titorials I've read show the commands > on how to install everything through the terminal. > > If you can offer any suggestion, I'd appreciate. > > Thanks, > > M. > > > > > > Marie Salas > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Search - Find what youre looking for faster. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
