[CentOS] yum groupinstall "MySQL Database"

Tue Jan 17 20:26:56 UTC 2006
Matt Hyclak <hyclak at math.ohiou.edu>

On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 09:43:44PM +0200, Alexandru E. Ungur enlightened us:
> I have a question related to yum groupinstall.
> I just tried a:
> 
> yum groupinstall "MySQL Database"
> 
> I expected that I would end up with a MySQL Database server,
> but it installed a bunch of .rpms *except* mysql-server. No
> big deal, I'm just curious if it was intended this way or not,
> that's all.
> 

Yes, the server is not included in the default group install of MySQL as
prescribed by upstream. I don't know why that is, but I have to always
remember to include mysql-server as well as @MySQL Database.

Matt

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