[GRLUG] installing MySQL

[Michael Mol]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 3:01 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
> At 01:50 PM 12/13/2011, you wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Joseph VanDerStelt
>> <joseph.vanderstelt at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > sudo apt-get install mysql
>>
>> Not quite.
>>
>> sudo apt-get install mysql-server
>
>
> Well, .. that's only half the server - you will most like want to
> communicate WITH the server:
>
>        sudo aptitude install mysql-client
>
> Note the use of "aptitude" instead of "apt-get" - aptitude is a unified
> interface to the package system that allows things like searches (aptitude
> search) and local install (aptitude install <filename>) not possible with
> apt-get.

"apt-get search" has always worked for me.

Installing .deb packages straight using apt-get? Never tried. I always
used dpkg for that.

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