All I can say is “urgh.”

Despite my best wishes, Ubuntu has actually trumped both SuSE and WinXP for once. The shock is liable to bring me to my knees and make me contemplate suicide. Seriously. I never thought I would say this but Ubuntu actually has an advantage.

Now, fortunately, it is not a massive advantage. It raises its ugly head when it comes to installing MySQL. (So, not exactly something you do every day!).

With the other operating systems there is a combination of lengthy downloads, messing about with sockets (and in the case of windows ensuring you have working connectors etc), and so on. Based on Ubuntu’s normal difficulty with letting you install things, you would be reasonable to consider this the same.

But no. With Ubuntu the process is:

sudo apt-get install mysql-server (enter)

That is it. Seriously. It works. (Tested just now). I need to go and have a lie down.