Hard work that goes unnoticed ....

I took a moment today and updated one of my Linux distributions.  In this distribution I happen to have Percona 5.6 installed as the MySQL Database. I have mentioned before how you can set up your choice of MySQL via a Yum repository.

My point here is though, how do we ever thank these people for all the work they do?

Many of these repositories are run by companies and these people get paid for what they do. Yet, through survey's and general observation/questions of the Linux (including Debian/Ubuntu) community, a majority of people will not upgrade until it is available in their distribution. I happen to be  one who wants to stay on top of security and bug fixes, so I have the yum repository update from the source as often as possible.

My point is,  a lot of work goes into packaging of these files for distribution and for the most part it looks like a pretty thankless job. I recall the older (not old but older) days of tar and gzip, when you had to dig and find the dependencies yourself. -- ./configure..  nope need something else go download and install that then try again.....

I just upgraded 25 different packages in a few moments, which would have taken some time before. While Yum and Apt Get are far from new, and I sound like an old timer here, I just thought it might be nice to say thanks, to all of the people who work behind the scenes to make all of our Linux experiences, let alone the related MySQL installs, easier and smoother.

I will point out that Oracle does have 5.6 packages now available.

• http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/MySQL56/

I recall that my previous post mentioned how it had not been. 

Percona 5.6 (MariaDB & MySQL) & Debian/Ubuntu

Get up and running easily with Percona 5.6 on Debian.
This example is running Linux Mint 15.

 PERCONA 5.6:
 http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-server/5.5/installation/apt_repo.html

 linuxmint ~ # apt-get install percona-server-server-5.6 percona-server-client-5.6
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree     
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libaio1 libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libmysqlclient18 libmysqlclient18.1 libnet-daemon-perl libplrpc-perl
  percona-server-common-5.6
Suggested packages:
  tinyca
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libaio1 libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libmysqlclient18 libmysqlclient18.1 libnet-daemon-perl libplrpc-perl
  percona-server-client-5.6 percona-server-common-5.6 percona-server-server-5.6
0 upgraded, 10 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 40.6 MB of archives.
After this operation, 140 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y


linuxmint ~ # mysql -e "CREATE FUNCTION fnv1a_64 RETURNS INTEGER SONAME 'libfnv1a_udf.so'"
ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)
linuxmint ~ # mysql -e "CREATE FUNCTION fnv1a_64 RETURNS INTEGER SONAME 'libfnv1a_udf.so'" -p
Enter password:
linuxmint ~ # mysql -e "CREATE FUNCTION fnv_64 RETURNS INTEGER SONAME 'libfnv_udf.so'" -p
Enter password:
linuxmint ~ # mysql -e "CREATE FUNCTION murmur_hash RETURNS INTEGER SONAME 'libmurmur_udf.so'" -p
Enter password:
linuxmint ~ #
linuxmint ~ # mysql -p
Enter password:
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 52
Server version: 5.6.13-rc61.0 Percona Server (GPL), Release 61.0

Copyright (c) 2009-2013 Percona LLC and/or its affiliates
Copyright (c) 2000, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its
affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective
owners.

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.

mysql> SELECT VERSION();
+---------------+
| VERSION()     |
+---------------+
| 5.6.13-rc61.0 |
+---------------+
1 row in set (0.04 sec)



MariaDB 10 & 5.5 both resulted with the following
https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/repositories/

linuxmint ~ # apt-get install mariadb-server
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

So you need to review
https://mariadb.com/kb/en/installing-mariadb-deb-files/

linuxmint ~ # apt-cache show mysql-common | grep Version
Version: 5.5.33a+maria-1~raring
linuxmint ~ # apt-cache show libmysqlclient18 | grep Version
Version: 5.5.33a+maria-1~raring
linuxmint ~ # apt-get install mariadb-server-5.5 mariadb-client-5.5  libmysqlclient18=5.5.33a+maria-1~raring  mysql-common=5.5.33a+maria-1~raring
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done


MySQL:
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/
It is possible to download the debian packages from the dev.mysql.com/downloads site.