You've got a looooong way to go. "tar" is short for tape archive. It is an
ancient unix utility that takes directory and file data and builds it into a
contiguous data base file. This is for portability and manageability. You should
have to get past "gzip" before you get to "tar". gzip is a gnu compression
utility. The mysql tarball is tar'd and gzip'd so one normally has to;
gzip -d mysql.tar.gz
tar -xvf mysql.tar
That leaves you with a directory you need to enter and "make install". Read the
INSTALL and README files. They'll get you through it OK. The reason for GNU TAR
is that the Solaris "tar" has a 128 charachter path limit to filenames. I think
MySQL exceeds that with the windows32 stuff. Warning!!!!! Solaris has a number
of other problems out of the box. The "cc" compiler is bad, as is the "ld" or
linker libraries. If your serious about using open source software you'd be best
to go to www.gnu.org and get;
gzip
bin utilities
make
tar
gcc
Your best off to compile and install them so they are custom to your current
solaris' environment. It goes something like;
gzip -d whatever.tar.gz
tar -xvf whatever.tar
cd whatever
./configure
make
make install
Compile and install all of these, add /usr/local/bin to your path;
PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/lib
export PATH
You are then "in the ball park". It's a tough haul. The solaris 2.8 CD has a lot
of these gnu utilities pre-compiled for Solaris. These can help but the practice
of compiling and installing the minor support libs can set you up better for the
big installs. If solaris wasn't such a rock solid OS on rock solid hardware I'd
recommend setting up FreeBSD on an old intel box. It's easier but not as robust
as freeBSD's development environment is "GNU/BSD" centric as are most open
source efforts.
Simon Chan wrote:
>
> Hi Everybody!
>
> Just starting to teach myself MySql and databases.
> I have the O'Reilly books on Perl DBI and Mysql, msql.
>
> My question is this:
>
> I am trying to install mysql on sparc sun solaris 2.7
> machine. I found a binary version in the downloads
> page of mysql.com (is is called Sun Solaris
> (Sparc)[sun-soalris2.7-sparc] )
>
> what exactly is the "GNU Tar" command? How do I
> install mysql with it?
>
> Any help would be much appreciated. Many thanks
> everybody!
>
> Sincerely,
> Simon Chan
>
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