Another choice is installing MySQL Database Server from a complete bundled from XAMPP . XAMPP bundled MySQL Database Server with Apache webserver, PHP and Perl Engine. Installing XAMPP on Linux box is very easy. This step was taken from apachefriends.org . 1. Download XAMPP for Linux from Apachefriends.org 2. Go to a Linux shell and login as the system administrator root : su 3. Extract the downloaded archive file to /opt : tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.6.tar.gz -C /opt Warning: Please use only this command to install XAMPP. DON'T use any Microsoft Windows tools to extract the archive, it won't work. Warning 2: already installed XAMPP versions get overwritten by this command. That's all. XAMPP is now installed below the /opt/lampp directory. 4. Start To start XAMPP simply call this command: /opt/lampp/lampp start You should now see something like this on your screen: Starting XAMPP 1.6... LAMPP: Starting Apache... LAMPP: Starting MySQL... LAMPP started. Ready. Apa...