Re: newbie: Upgrading MySQL

[Paul DuBois]

At 8:04 -0500 2/1/02, Pax wrote:
>Hi I am newbie to mySQL and Linux in general. I installed Suse 7.3 with
>mySQL and I would like to update it to the latest version.
>
>My questions are:
>- should I uninstall the previous version? And if so, how?

You should read the section in the manual about upgrading from
previous versions:

http://www.mysql.com/doc/U/p/Upgrade.html

>- are there any instruction of compiling it from source?

That's covered in the manual as well.

>
>Thanks
>Pax