Dependency relationships exist among some of the packages. If you plan to install many of the packages, you may wish to download the RPM bundle tar file instead, which contains all the RPM packages listed above, so that you need not download them separately.
The full names for the RPMs have the following syntax: packagename-version-distribution-arch.rpm In most cases, you need to install the mysql-community-server, mysql-community-client, mysql-community-libs, mysql-community-common, and mysql-community-libs-compat to get a functional, standard MySQL installation.
For Red Hat Enterprise Linux/Oracle Linux/CentOS 5 systems, there is an extra package (mysql-version-el5-arch.rpm) to be installed; use the following command:
shell> yum install mysql-community-{server,client,common,libs}-* mysql-5.* Package Name Summary mysql-community-server Database server and related tools mysql-community-client MySQL client applications and tools mysql-community-common Common files for server and client libraries mysql-community-devel Development header files and libraries for MySQL database client applications mysql-community-libs Shared libraries for MySQL database client applications mysql-community-libs-compat Shared compatibility libraries for previous MySQL installations mysql-community-embedded MySQL embedded library mysql-community-embedded-devel Development header files and libraries for MySQL as an embeddable library mysql-community-test Test suite for the MySQL server
