As an alternative, you can use the package manager on your system to automatically download and install MySQL with packages from the native software repositories of your Linux distribution.

MySQL Community Edition is a freely downloadable version of the world's most popular open source database that is supported by an active community of open source developers and …

We suggest that you use the MD5 checksums and GnuPG signatures to verify the integrity of the packages you download.

These are supplementary downloads that might be useful for some users to build or run MySQL products on specific operating systems. The information or patches might be obsolete for …

This section covers the installation of MySQL from a compressed tar file binary distribution on Unix/Linux platforms. For Linux-generic binary distribution installation instructions with a focus …

Dec 9, 2025 · Download the .tar or .tar.gz archive for the generic binaries for Linux from the Download MySQL Community Server page. See Installing MySQL on Unix/Linux Using …

The recommended way to install MySQL on RPM-based Linux distributions is by using the RPM packages provided by Oracle. There are two sources for obtaining them, for the Community …

This chapter describes how to obtain and install MySQL. A summary of the procedure follows and later sections provide the details.

The MySQL APT repository provides a simple and convenient way to install and update MySQL products with the latest software packages using Apt. The MySQL APT repository provides …

As an alternative, you can use the package manager on your system to automatically download and install MySQL with packages from the native software repositories of your Linux distribution.