You better download the binary release from mysql.com and install it. It's statically
linked so it should work fine on all Linuxes.
Correctly installed MySQL binary release works fine and generally needs no tweaking to
start and run.
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of response: starting mysqld daemon with
database from /usr/local/mysql/data
and then when I typed in "mysql"
I got "Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
'/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock'"
But there is the right reponse(version number and other stuff) when I telnet
