The other day I came across some neat instructions on how to set up FreeBSD with MySQL 6.0. It’s pretty straight forward:
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Download MySQL 6.0 here -
Extract the files to /usr/local/mysql -
Add MySQL group "groupadd mysql" -
Add MySQL user "useradd -g mysql mysql" -
Change the permissions with "chown mysql -R /usr/local/mysql"from /usr/local/mysql run "scripts/mysql_install_db --user=mysql" -
Change the permissions again "chown -R root ." and "chown -R mysql data" -
Now run the server "bin/mysqld_safe --user=mysql &"
Source: FreeBSD World
