MySQL

Installing MySQL for DocDB

Install the latest available release of MySQL for your machine. (DocDB is known to work with releases as old as MySQL 3.22.30.)

• Create an account to own the mysql database. MySQL assumes that this account will be named "mysql", but this is not a requirement.
• Linux
  • MySQL or MariaDB packages are available with your OS
• other UNIX
  • Get MySQL from http://www.mysql.com/ or MariaDB from https://mariadb.com/
• Create a mysql root administrator account with: mysqladmin -u root password [some password]