Operating Systems Supported By Mysql Community Server - Oracle 5.0 Reference Manual

If you encounter installation difficulties, see
information on solving problems for particular platforms.
5. Perform any necessary postinstallation setup.
"Postinstallation Setup and
MySQL server is working properly. It also describes how to secure the initial MySQL user accounts,
which have no passwords until you assign passwords. The information in this section applies
whether you install MySQL using a binary or source distribution.
6. Perform setup for running benchmarks (optional).
scripts, Perl support for MySQL must be available. See
more information.
The sections immediately following this one contain necessary information about choosing,
downloading, and verifying your distribution. The instructions in later sections of the chapter describe
how to install the distribution that you choose. For binary distributions, see the instructions in
Section 2.9, "Standard MySQL Installation from a Binary
use the instructions in

2.4.2. Operating Systems Supported by MySQL Community Server

This section lists the operating systems on which MySQL Community Server is known to run.
We use GNU Autoconf, so it is possible to port MySQL to all modern systems that have a C++ compiler
and a working implementation of POSIX threads. (Thread support is needed for the server. To compile
only the client code, the only requirement is a C++ compiler.)
MySQL has been reported to compile successfully on the following combinations of operating system
and thread package.
• AIX 4.x and 5.x with native threads. See
upgraded to technology level 7 (5300-07).
• Amiga.
• FreeBSD 5.x and up with native threads.
• HP-UX 11.x with native threads. See
• Linux. Builds on all recent Linux distributions based on the 2.6 kernel. See
Notes".
• Mac OS X. See
• NetBSD 1.3/1.4 Intel and NetBSD 1.3 Alpha. See
• Novell NetWare 6.0 and 6.5. See
• SCO OpenServer 5.0.X with a recent port of the FSU Pthreads package. See
UNIX and OpenServer 5.0.x
• SCO Openserver 6.0.x. See
• SCO UnixWare 7.1.x. See

Operating Systems Supported by MySQL Community Server

Testing", which contains important information about making sure the
Section 2.17, "Installing MySQL from
Important
Oracle Corporation does not necessarily provide official support for all the
platforms listed in this section. For information about those platforms that are
officially supported, see http://www.mysql.com/support/supportedplatforms.html
on the MySQL Web site.
Section 2.11, "Installing MySQL on Mac OS
Section 2.15, "Installing MySQL on
Notes".
Section 2.20.5.9, "SCO OpenServer 6.0.x
Section 2.20.5.10, "SCO UnixWare 7.1.x and OpenUNIX 8.0.0
Section 2.20, "Operating System-Specific
After installing MySQL, read
If you want to use the MySQL benchmark
Section 2.22, "Perl Installation
Distribution". To build MySQL from source,
Source".
Section 2.20.5.3, "IBM-AIX
Section 2.20.5.2, "HP-UX Version 11.x
Section 2.20.4.2, "NetBSD
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notes". AIX 5.3 should be
Notes".
Section 2.20.1, "Linux
X".
Notes".
NetWare".
Section 2.20.5.8, "SCO
Notes".
Notes", for
Section 2.18,
Notes", for
Notes".