2.2. Standard MySQL Installation Using a Binary Distribution
The next several sections cover the installation of MySQL on
platforms where we offer packages using the native packaging
format of the respective platform. (This is also known as
performing a “binary install.”) However, binary
distributions of MySQL are available for many other platforms as
well. See Section 2.7, “Installing MySQL on Other Unix-Like Systems”, for generic
installation instructions for these packages that apply to all
platforms.
See Section 2.1, “General Installation Issues”, for more
information on what other binary distributions are available and
how to obtain them.
