MySQL在很多领域被广泛使用，尤其是很多互联网企业，诸如腾讯，阿里等等。本文主要介绍在Linux 5下通过rpm方式来安装Mysql，这是比较简单的一种安装方式，具体详见下文。

1、准备对应的安装文件
下载页面：http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/
找到对应的版本及所需的文件进行下载，如果下载的为tar文件，请使用tar解压
本人在Oracle Edelivery 下载，所以为V44331-01.zip
#安装环境
[root@linux1 Mysql_src]# cat /etc/issue
Enterprise Linux Enterprise Linux Server release 5.5 (Carthage)
Kernel \r on an \m
#源文件路径
[root@linux1 Mysql_src]# pwd
/Mysql_src
[root@linux1 Mysql_src]# unzip V44331-01.zip
Archive:  V44331-01.zip
 extracting: MySQL-embedded-advanced-5.6.17-1.rhel5.i386.rpm 
 extracting: MySQL-test-advanced-5.6.17-1.rhel5.i386.rpm 
 extracting: MySQL-shared-advanced-5.6.17-1.rhel5.i386.rpm          # MySQL的共享库
 extracting: MySQL-devel-advanced-5.6.17-1.rhel5.i386.rpm           # MySQL的库和头文件
 extracting: MySQL-client-advanced-5.6.17-1.rhel5.i386.rpm          # MySQL客户端程序
 extracting: MySQL-server-advanced-5.6.17-1.rhel5.i386.rpm          # MySQL服务端程序
 extracting: MySQL-shared-compat-advanced-5.6.17-1.rhel5.i386.rpm   # RHEL兼容包
 extracting: README.txt             

2、MySQL默认安装路径
 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

3、安装MySQL
[root@linux1 Mysql_src]# rpm -ivh MySQL-server-advanced-5.6.17-1.rhel5.i386.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:MySQL-server-advanced  ########################################### [100%]
2014-04-15 17:26:59 0 [Warning] TIMESTAMP with implicit DEFAULT value is deprecated.
Please use --explicit_defaults_for_timestamp server option (see documentation for more details).
2014-04-15 17:26:59 6524 [Note]