Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Does anyone know how to install mysql using puppy package manager?

What specific Puppy version you using?

xenialpup64

I see there has been no response.
I found it damn hard to get anywhere on Puppy with a database install of any type .
It just does not want to work for me some weird reason.

I;ll follow along for sure if someone helps you to actually achieve that .
The best i have found and used on Puppy is the sfs load of Libreoffice and use the database and query language there.
There seemed to be two versions available a 5.4 and a 7 .
LibreOffice-5.4.3_64_en-GB_7.0.8.6.sfs
LibreOffice-7.1.3_64_en-GB_xz.sfs

The 7.1 won't load at all on my xenialpup64-7.5 . The 5.4 version does seem to work but I have not tested it properly.

Under Documents in the menu is an item supposedly to download the latest version of Libre Office with a choice of stable or latest. I chose the stable and sat there for 5 minutes with no feedback whatever . It might have been downloading but you wouldn't know it .
The clot who dreamt that one up didn't bother to tell the user what is going on so thats a useless approach too.
You get a message that says its going to download a deb file and install it but I found nothing was being downloaded for me .
Nethogs in a console just gave me the open opera browser downloading its usual data and no others.

I have not done it on Xenial64 in a while.....let me set one up and I'll install MySQL and or mariaDB and I'll write about how I did it.

On the old forum I am pretty sure I did a how-to on a Xenial32 involving MySQL, Apache2 and PHP5 then PHP7. But let me start by asking how new of a version of mysql to you want to install? Easiest would be using the one in Xenial's PPM repos.

basic outline (this can be run as root as well)

1 PPM install mysql-server
2 in a terminal adduser mysql
3 in a terminal initialize mysql with mysql_install_db
4 in a terminal mysqld -u mysql &
5 in a terminal mysql_secure_installation

main tip is to check that all of the directories (such as /var/run/mysqld) exist after install.

This is a script version installing mariaDB (from one of my zoneminder Puppy Linux installers)

#!/bin/sh

# # create the user for the mysql server
adduser mysql -D

# install the mysql server and intialize it
pkg add mariadb mariadb-server

# create run time directories and set the correct permissions and ownership
[ ! -d  /var/run/mysqld ]  && mkdir /var/run/mysqld

chown -R mysql /var/run/mysqld
mysql_install_db
sleep 2
mysqld  &
sleep 2
 
 echo "Make sure that NOBODY can access the server without a password"
 
# Make sure that NOBODY can access the server without a password
mysql -e "UPDATE mysql.user SET Password = PASSWORD('admin') WHERE User = 'root'"

# Kill the anonymous users
mysql -e "DROP USER ''@'localhost'"

# Because our hostname varies we'll use some Bash magic here.
mysql -e "DROP USER ''@'$(hostname)'"

# Make our changes take effect
mysql -e "FLUSH PRIVILEGES"

echo "Finished stage 1. mariadb is installed"

Damn ! Guess you pushed me to give it another try @rockedge

okay after using the mariadb-server script.

How do you get started using sql in the terminal?

To reach mysql via the terminal, start the command line interface with ->

mysql -uroot -p

enter the root user password and now it is ready for commands and SQL syntax.

Check out Sql-bionicpup64.

It makes it easy to do sql on puppy linux.

forum page to Sql-bionicpup64