MySQL Installation

Please note that if you don’t have an MTA (mail transport agent AKA an 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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