Re: Using MySQL 4 to create tables for MySQL 3

[Ingo Strüwing]

A tarball should be installable without superuser permissions. I do not know of appropriate How-Tos. But we have an istallation chapter in our reference manual: 2.7. Installing MySQL on Other Unix-Like Systems. You can leave out all privileged commands and select a different install location. The problem is, however, that the binaries expect that everything is installed in /usr/local/mysql. But since I work with MySQL as non-root every day, building new versions and installing them, I can say that it can work anyway. The problem is to start the server with proper options for port numbers, socket file and base and data directories. And to start the applications with matching port and socket options.