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Alex Drlica-Wagner edited this page Aug 21, 2020 · 2 revisions

Installing MySQL for DocDB

Install the latest available release of MySQL for your machine. (DocDB is known to work with releases as old as MySQL 3.22.30.)

  • Create an account to own the mysql database. MySQL assumes that this account will be named "mysql", but this is not a requirement.
  • Linux
    • MySQL or MariaDB packages are available with your OS
  • other UNIX
  • Create a mysql root administrator account with: mysqladmin -u root password [some password]