mysql-packages

The RPM packages usages and details:

Ø MySQL-server-VERSION.glibc23.i386.rpm - The MySQL server. You need this unless you only want to connect to a MySQL server running on another machine.

Ø MySQL-client-VERSION.glibc23.i386.rpm - The standard MySQL client programs. You probably always want to install this package.

Ø MySQL-devel-VERSION.glibc23.i386.rpm - The libraries and include files that are needed if you want to compile other MySQL clients, such as the Perl modules.

Ø MySQL-debuginfo-VERSION.glibc23.i386.rpm - This package contains debugging information. debuginfo RPMs are never needed to use MySQL software; this is true both for the server and for client programs. However, they contain additional information that might be needed by a debugger to analyze a crash.

Ø MySQL-shared-VERSION.glibc23.i386.rpm - This package contains the shared libraries (libmysqlclient.so*) that certain languages and applications need to dynamically load and use MySQL. It contains single-threaded and thread-safe libraries. If you install this package, do not install the MySQL-shared-compat package.

Ø MySQL-shared-compat-VERSION.glibc23.i386.rpm - This package includes the shared libraries for MySQL 3.23, 4.0, and so on, up to the current release. It contains single-threaded and thread-safe libraries. Install this package instead of MySQL-shared if you have applications installed that are dynamically linked against older versions of MySQL but you want to upgrade to the current version without breaking the library dependencies.

Ø MySQL-shared-compat-advanced-gpl-VERSION.glibc23.i386.rpm, MySQL-shared-compat-advanced-VERSION.glibc23.i386.rpm - These are like the MySQL-shared-compat package, but are for the “MySQL Enterprise Server – Advanced Edition” products. Install these packages rather than the normal MySQL-shared-compat package if you want to included shared client libraries for older MySQL versions.

Ø MySQL-embedded-VERSION.glibc23.i386.rpm - The embedded MySQL server library.
Ø MySQL-ndb-management-VERSION.glibc23.i386.rpm, MySQL-ndb-storage-VERSION.glibc23.i386.rpm, MySQL-ndb-tools-VERSION.glibc23.i386.rpm, MySQL-ndb-extra-VERSION.glibc23.i386.rpm - Packages that contain additional files for MySQL Cluster installations.
o Note : The MySQL-ndb-tools RPM requires a working installation of perl. Prior to MySQL 5.1.18, the DBI and HTML::Template packages were also required. See Section 2.15, “Perl Installation Notes”, and Section 17.4.21, “ndb_size.pl — NDBCLUSTER Size Requirement Estimator”, for more information.

Ø MySQL-test-VERSION.glibc23.i386.rpm - This package includes the MySQL test suite.
Ø MySQL-VERSION.src.rpm - This contains the source code for all of the previous packages. It can also be used to rebuild the RPMs on other architectures (for example, Alpha or SPARC).

Default Installation Directory :

Directory -> Contents of Directory
/usr/bin -> Client programs and scripts
/usr/sbin -> The mysqld server
/var/lib/mysql -> Log files, databases
/usr/share/info -> Manual in Info format
/usr/share/man -> Unix manual pages
/usr/include/mysql -> Include (header) files
/usr/lib/mysql -> Libraries
/usr/share/mysql -> Miscellaneous support files, including error messages, character set files, sample configuration files, SQL for database installation
/usr/share/sql-bench -> Benchmarks