Mysql on OpenSuse 10.2

[Ultimatum]

Ey, I am trying to install mysql on OpenSuse 10.2, but I keep getting this error:

Starting the mysqld server. You can test that it is up and running
with the command:
./bin/mysqladmin version
X22-Server:~/downloads/mysql-5.0.45-linux-i686 # nohup: redirecting stderr to stdout
Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /root/downloads/mysql-5.0.45-linux-i686/data
STOPPING server from pid file /root/downloads/mysql-5.0.45-linux-i686/data/X22-Server.pid
071101 22:46:02 mysqld ended

I download several myqsl versions, but I keep getting this error. I use this line to configure

./configure --prefix=/opt/localhost/mysql --with-mysql-user=mysql

So I thought the problem was there so I did:

./configure

No luck either. Can somebody help me, I am a complete linux noob so please be specific .

Edit: hmm, it appears to be fixed. Don't know how, I installed ncurses en tried mysql 5.2.0 (I only tried newer versions before). En now I dit make and it runs like a train. I will let you know if anything goes wrong again

[gogalthorp]

MySQL is normally installed by default I believe. In any case you should always try to get your software from a Suse repository and install with Yast or smart. You really don't want to install from source unless you have to.

[Ultimatum]

I had to add that I want to install everything from the commandline with only .tar.gz en rpm files. I am not allowed to use yast or something like it. Because this is a course I take at school and they say you learn better if you search instead of using the easy way (Yast )