MySQL 6.0 installed on FreeBSD

The other day I came across some neat instructions on how to set up FreeBSD with MySQL 6.0. It’s pretty straight forward:

• Download MySQL 6.0 here

• Extract the files to /usr/local/mysql

• Add MySQL group "groupadd mysql"

• Add MySQL user "useradd -g mysql mysql"

• Change the permissions with "chown mysql -R /usr/local/mysql" from /usr/local/mysql run "scripts/mysql_install_db --user=mysql"

• Change the permissions again "chown -R root ." and "chown -R mysql data"

• Now run the server "bin/mysqld_safe --user=mysql &"

Source: FreeBSD World