Oct 20, 2025 · This is the MySQL Installation Guide from the MySQL 5.7 Reference Manual. For legal information, see the Legal Notices. For help with using MySQL, please visit the MySQL …

Oct 24, 2025 · MySQL Installation Guide Abstract This is the MySQL Installation Guide from the MySQL 8.0 Reference Manual. For legal information, see the Legal Notices. For help with …

Chapter 1 Installing MySQL This chapter describes how to obtain and install MySQL. A summary of the procedure follows and later sections provide the details.

To install MySQL from a source distribution or from the current development source tree, use the instructions in Section 2.8, “Installing MySQL from Source”.

Oct 17, 2025 · Installing and Starting MySQL There are different ways to install MySQL. The following covers the easiest methods for installing and starting MySQL on different platforms.

When you download MySQL Installer for the first time, a setup wizard guides you through the initial installation of MySQL products. As the following figure shows, the initial setup is a one …

The following instructions assume that MySQL is not already installed on your system using a third-party-distributed RPM package; if that is not the case, follow the instructions given at …

For instructions on installing MySQL using MySQL Installer, see Section 2.3.3, “MySQL Installer for Windows”. The standard binary distribution (packaged as a compressed file) contains all of …

For many Linux installations, you want to set up MySQL to be started automatically when your machine starts. Many of the native package installations perform this operation for you, but for …

This section covers the installation of MySQL from a compressed tar file binary distribution on Unix/Linux platforms. For Linux-generic binary distribution installation instructions with a focus …