How do I install MySQL on Occidentalis?

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I cannot find any guides on how to install MySQL on a Raspberry Pi running Occidentalis 0.2; Occidentalis is a Raspbian derivative.

I cannot use apt-get to install it even after running apt-get update. I guess I'll need to compile MySQL myself. What is the experience with doing this?

This is what I tried:

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo apt-get install mysql
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package mysql

score 12 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 17 '12 at 22:13

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Easy answer:

sudo apt-get install mysql-server

You just forgot the -server string!!

Good luck!

edited Sep 17 '12 at 22:13

Jivings

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answered Sep 17 '12 at 17:47

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 17 '12 at 20:07

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Occidentalis, Raspbian and Debian divide the MySQL functionality into 2 packages: mysql-server and mysql-client. They can be installed using apt-get install, which should be run as root.

answered Sep 17 '12 at 20:07

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