MySQL 5 Administration-Part 1 Tutorials
Introduction / System Requirements
Subtitles of the Movie (MySQL 5 Administration-Part 1 / Introduction / System Requirements)
In this lesson we're going to briefly discuss the requirements of your computer system for installing MySQL 5. Now, we're going to install version 5.5 and we're eventually going to do this in a whole chapter we have on installation, not for a number of chapters though we have other things to get to first. But when we get there you're going to need a fairly recent computer and I don't care for the purposes of the course whether you're putting it on a desktop machine or a laptop machine or a, a heavy duty server type machine. Whatever it is you're doing, we're going to discuss all those details later. You're going to need a fairly recent operating system and there are a number of operating systems that we can load it on. You can get the Installers from the official location on the Dev.MySQL.com website which is managed by Oracle Corporation. And there are a number of other places that we'll discuss in the installation chapter such as SkySQL which is where most of the real professional support people from the original MySQL company have all clustered to. Or Percona which is a well-known third party support source and some other places. So we'll discuss all those things in that installation chapter. When you go to the Dev.MySQL.com Downloads page it should recognize the operating system that you're logging in with there already. And it will show you then a list of the installers for that operating system. If you happen to be going there on one operating system but want to download the software that you're going to install on a different operating system, you can do that. All you have to do is just use the dropdown list that shows your current operating system to select the different operating system and it will change the content there and show you the installers for that other OS. Now for people who are on Windows understand that it doesn't matter what version of Windows you're using, as long as you're using a modern one. What does matter is the version of that version that you're using, either the 32-bit or the 64-bit. This is not what hardware you're running on. It's quite possible that you could be running on a 64-bit computer and still using a 32-bit version of the operating system. It's the version of the operating system that you want to match up with the software. Same thing goes for the Macintosh really. Now, we don't support the old Power PC machines, only Intel machines are going to work but Power PC ones are kind of dying off hopefully. For version 5.5 you have to start with at least the Leopard Operating System that's Mac OS X 10.5. But if you're installing 5.1, if you want to go back a step, you can go back to Panther which is the Mac OS X version 10.4. Again keep in mind whether you're trying to work on a 32-bit or a 64-bit operating system. A 32-bit version of MySQL will work fine on a 64-bit operating system running on a 64-bit host. However, a 64-bit version of MySQL will not run on a 32-bit version of the operating system even if you're running on a 64-bit host. So again the operating system has to match the MySQL software. Now the choice of platforms that they're going to support is up to Oracle. So you can deal with them. If you're using some kind of strange Linux and somebody just made it in a garage a couple of weekends ago, they may not have a version for you yet. You can still download the source code and compile it yourself but you can't count on Oracle to keep up with all of those things, they're trying to stay as much mainstream as they can. Alright. That's what we need to know for requirements for your operating system. In the next lesson, I want to discuss briefly the requirements for you. There are some prerequisite things that you have to know before this course is going to do you much good. So we'll talk about that in the next lesson.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | MySQL 5 Administration-Part 1 |
| Author: | David Swain |
| SKU: | 34307 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61866-086-2 |
| Release Date: | 2012-12-31 |
| Duration: | 16 hrs / 171 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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