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MySQL is the database software most people use for the OpenMRS Platform database. You should know your MySQL root password, or have a database ready with username and password to install the OpenMRS Platform into. The latest version of openMRS core supports mysql 5.7, MySQL 5.6 also works perfectly fine.
For Linux (especially Ubuntu 20.04) follow these steps to install MySQL 5.6
- Download the MySQL Community Server DEB Bundle from here. Select
5.6.*as Product Version,Debian Linuxas Operating System and then download the 32-bit or 64-bit DEB Bundle as per the system’s requirement.
It basically contains individual packages likemysql-common,mysql-community-client,mysql-client,mysql-community-server, etc. - Install the packages individually using
dpkg -i <package-name>.deb. - Note that it will be required to go in a certain order for installing the packages, which could be found out by trial-and-error (see the error messages if any for the other package’s requirement).
- In case there is some error for missing dependencies, run
sudo apt-get install -f.
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This order of installation works for Ubuntu 20.04.Install the .deb packages in the following order:
sudo dpkg -i mysql-common_5.6.47-1debian9_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i mysql-community-client_5.6.47-1debian9_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i mysql-client_5.6.47-1debian9_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i mysql-community-server_5.6.47-1debian9_amd64.deb
You might also need to install libaio1 package. Use this command :
sudo apt-get install libaio1
If you see errors, Re run the following commands :
sudo dpkg -i mysql-common_5.6.47-1debian9_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i mysql-community-client_5.6.47-1debian9_amd64.deb
If you get some errors about missing dependencies, Run sudo apt-get install -f.
That’s it, MySQL 5.6 will be installed successfully!
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Note: The latest version of openMRS core supports mysql 5.7 Server and above. An error might flag if the version is below 5.6.
Installation for Developers On Windows supplemented with images.
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