Install MySQL 5.5 From Source (Ubuntu/Linux)
May 16th, 2012 | By: Gareth Parmar | How to’s, MySQL howto | No comments »
Why?…. LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE?
I recently updated my home machine to Ubuntu 12.04 and found MySQL 5.5 installed as default. As happy as I was to have the latest stable MySQL server, I was a bit gutted to find that LOAD DATA LOCAL was disabled as default, due to security issues. These issues may be valid but this is my local environment and I’ve got projects that require it so thought I’d waste utilize some free time fixing it.
The Process
I’ll be truthful, I did quite a bit of research and didn’t find a definitive guide on how to install MySQL from source, but I aim to provide a guide that gets as close as possible as quick as possible!