Error installing MySQL 5.6.16 from source on Debian

Question

These are the steps I followed:

1. Download mysql-5.6.16.tar.gz to /usr/local/src
2. cd /usr/local/src
3. tar -zxvf mysql-5.6.16.tar.gz
4. cp /usr/local/src/mysql-5.6.16 /usr/local/mysql/
5. cd /usr/local/mysql
6. created group mysql with user mysql
7. chown -R mysql .
8. chgrp -R mysql .
9. cmake .
10. make
11. make install

But I got an error running this command:

9. scripts/mysql_install_db.sh --user=mysql --datadir=/usr/local/mysql/data

bash: scripts/mysql_install_db.sh: Permission denied

I am doing all these steps with root user.

Any suggestion to make it work. Please provide me the full steps to install MySQL 5.6.16 on Debian by compiling the tar.gz file.

Answer 1

Does scripts/mysql_install_db.sh have execute permission?
(check with ls -l scripts/mysql_install_db.sh)

If not, you can

1. add execution permission to it by

   chmod a+x scripts/mysql_install_db.sh
   

or

1. run it using sh scripts/mysql_install_db.sh ....