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I cannot find any guides on how to install MySQL on a Raspberry Pi running Occidentalis 0.2; Occidentalis is a Raspbian derivative.

I cannot use apt-get to install it even after running apt-get update. I guess I'll need to compile MySQL myself. What is the experience with doing this?

This is what I tried:

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo apt-get install mysql
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package mysql
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  • It installs using apt-get on Raspbian. Unless you have a specific reason for using Occidentalis it might be easier to just use that.
    – Kibbee
    Sep 17, 2012 at 16:56
  • If you need a database on Occidentalis, use sqlite instead. I'm reasonably certain it will keep up on a low load.
    – Alex Chamberlain
    Sep 17, 2012 at 17:00
  • @Kibbee: Occidentalis is based on Raspbian so it should use the same repos. If it's available in Raspian, it should be available in Occidentalis too, unless something is broken.
    – Krzysztof Adamski
    Sep 17, 2012 at 17:02
  • @AlexChamberlain: MySQL should also be able to work with quite low resources. And SQLite is very simple and lacks a lot of features of true RDBMs so it might not be suitable for many workloads.
    – Krzysztof Adamski
    Sep 17, 2012 at 17:04
  • maybe im doing something wrong. edited question with my install steps
    – mkoryak
    Sep 17, 2012 at 17:32

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Easy answer: 

sudo apt-get install mysql-server

You just forgot the -server string!!

Good luck!

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  • damn it... always editing both my answers and my questions ;)
    – Christian
    Sep 17, 2012 at 22:52
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    Don't forget that you can use apt-cache search foo to search for package names if you are not sure of them.
    – dsas
    Sep 18, 2012 at 20:32
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Occidentalis, Raspbian and Debian divide the MySQL functionality into 2 packages: mysql-server and mysql-client. They can be installed using apt-get install, which should be run as root.

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