MySQL Installation

Please note that if you don’t have a MTA (mail transport agent AKA a SMTP mail server) installed already it will want to install one, and default to exim.

myboxcar:~# aptitude install mysql-server mysql-client libmysqlclient15-dev

libmysqlclient15-dev is required in order to be able to build the mysql gem. When you are prompted with the following, answer Y (enter).

Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y

Now just install the mysql gem.

gem install mysql

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