Installing MySQL on HP-UX

Binary distributions of MySQL for HP-UX are distributed as HP depot files or as tar files. To use the depot file you must be running at least HP-UX 10.x to have access to HP's software depot tools. To install the HP-UX tar.gz distribution, you must have a copy of GNU tar.

The HP version of MySQL was compiled on an HP 9000/8xx server under HP-UX 10.20, and uses MIT-pthreads. It is known to work well under this configuration. MySQL Version 3.22.26 and newer can also be built with HP's native thread package.

Other configurations that may work:

The following configurations almost definitely won't work:

To install the distribution, use one of the commands here, where /path/to/depot is the full pathname of the depot file:

The depot places binaries and libraries in /opt/mysql and data in /var/opt/mysql. The depot also creates the appropriate entries in /etc/init.d and /etc/rc2.d to start the server automatically at boot time. Obviously, this entails being root to install.