Chapter 2 General Installation Guidance

Table of Contents

2.1 Supported Platforms

2.2 Which MySQL Version and Distribution to Install

2.3 How to Get MySQL

2.4 Verifying Package Integrity Using MD5 Checksums or GnuPG

2.4.1 Verifying the MD5 Checksum

2.4.2 Signature Checking Using GnuPG

2.4.3 Signature Checking Using Gpg4win for Windows

2.4.4 Signature Checking Using RPM

2.4.5 GPG Public Build Key for Archived Packages

2.5 Installation Layouts

2.6 Compiler-Specific Build Characteristics

The immediately following sections contain the information necessary to choose, download, and verify 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 at Chapter 3, Installing MySQL on Unix/Linux Using Generic Binaries or the corresponding section for your platform if available. To build MySQL from source, use the instructions in Chapter 4, Installing MySQL from Source.