Need to install mySQL on Sarge

[jbollyn]

I need to install this package, but I do not know the syntax. Do I run apt-get?

Need step-by-step instructions, please.

Don't assume I know anything about linux, which is quite close to the truth.

My understanding is, I would go to whatever directory has the installation executable I need, and enter something like:

apt-get install XXXXXX

...but I don't know what XXXXXX should be.

Or perhaps I don't use apt-get at all. Or I need to tweak it before I run it.


TIA - J.

nat-12-157:/home/jbollyn/Desktop/mysql-standard-5.0.27-linux-i686# ls -la
total 100
drwxr-xr-x 14 503 users 4096 2006-10-21 03:23 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 jbollyn jbollyn 4096 2007-02-21 03:10 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 503 users 4096 2006-10-21 03:23 bin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 503 users 801 2006-10-21 03:23 configure
-rw-r--r-- 1 503 users 19071 2006-10-20 19:22 COPYING
drwxr-x--- 4 503 users 4096 2006-10-21 03:23 data
drwxr-xr-x 2 503 users 4096 2006-10-21 03:23 docs
-rw-r--r-- 1 503 users 5806 2006-10-21 03:18 EXCEPTIONS-CLIENT
drwxr-xr-x 2 503 users 4096 2006-10-21 03:23 include
-rw-r--r-- 1 503 users 7752 2006-10-21 03:18 INSTALL-BINARY
drwxr-xr-x 2 503 users 4096 2006-10-21 03:23 lib
drwxr-xr-x 4 503 users 4096 2006-10-21 03:23 man
drwxr-xr-x 7 503 users 4096 2006-10-21 03:23 mysql-test
-rw-r--r-- 1 503 users 1380 2006-10-20 19:22 README
drwxr-xr-x 2 503 users 4096 2006-10-21 03:23 scripts
drwxr-xr-x 3 503 users 4096 2006-10-21 03:23 share
drwxr-xr-x 5 503 users 4096 2006-10-21 03:23 sql-bench
drwxr-xr-x 2 503 users 4096 2006-10-21 03:23 support-files
drwxr-xr-x 2 503 users 4096 2006-10-21 03:23 tests

[Vergil83]

run

apt-get install mysql-server