If you're using RPM files to install the MySQL server, clients, and
other components, we have good news for you: The MySQL Reference Manual
is available in RPM format now!
We've packaged HTML (one page per chapter) and PDF (US Letter and A4)
into separate RPM files. In other words, for each version of the
MySQL Manual (4.1, 5.0, and 5.1) there are two RPM files, like this:
- mysql-refman-5.0-en-html-chapter-1-20061109.noarch.rpm
- mysql-refman-5.0-en-pdf-1-20061109.noarch.rpm
You can find all available RPM files here:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/#manual
Installation is as simple and straightforward as with any other RPM:
shell> rpm -i mysql-refman-5.0-en-html-chapter-1-20061109.noarch.rpm
The MySQL Manual is frequently being updated, and once per day we create
new RPM files. Updating your MySQL documentation is as easy as this now:
shell> rpm -U mysql-refman-5.0-en-html-chapter-1-20061110.noarch.rpm
We hope this will make life easier for many of our users!
Stefan Hinz, MySQL Documentation, Berlin, Germany
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/17/2006 01:35AM by Edwin DeSouza.