Hi --
(thank you, in very small type, quite sheepishly ...)
Bob.
At 10:55 AM 5/30/99 , you wrote:
>At 9:07 AM -0700 5/30/1999, Bob Bowker wrote:
>>Hi --
>>
>>With apologies up front for what is probably something really simple I'm
>>overlooking ... I'm trying to install MySQL from source (for the first time
>>- I've always used rpm before).
>>
>> PP200
>> Linux RH 5.2
>> Apache 1.3.6, PHP3.07 (both from source)
>> mysql-3_21_33c-pc-linux-gnu-i686_tar.gz
>>
>>The file unzips and untars fine, but in the mysql_(version) subdir, there's
>>no configure script ... nor in any subdirs under that. Do I have a bad
>>download ...? Or is there something basic I'm just not groking on this one?
>
>You're not trying to install from source, you've grabbed a precompiled
>binary distribution. Source distributions don't have any platform
>into in the name. You want just mysql-3.xx.yy.tar.gz, where 3.xx.yy is
>the version number.
>
>--
>Paul DuBois, paul@stripped
>Northern League Chronicles: http://www.snake.net/nl/
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