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I am currently using Red Hat linux. I just want to find out whether MySQL is installed in that system. If yes where is it located? can anyone help please...

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Type mysql --version to see if it is installed.

To find location use find -name mysql.

Shoaib Iqbal
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Ankit
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    `find -name mysql` will only work if your working directory is `/` or `/usr` (or whatever component of the `mysql` location). `which mysql` is better if you want to locate a binary as it searches in the directories of `$PATH` only. – Lekensteyn May 12 '11 at 07:02
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If you're looking for the RPM.

rpm -qa | grep MySQL

Most of it's data is stored in /var/lib/mysql so that's another good place to look.

If it is installed

which mysql

will give you the location of the binary.

You could also do an

updatedb

and a 

locate mysql

to find any mysql files.

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yum list installed | grep mysql

Then if it's not installed you can do (as root)

yum install mysql -y
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to ckeck the status use the below command, which worked on debian....

/etc/init.d/mysql status

to start my sql server use the below command

/etc/init.d/mysql start

to stop the server use the below command

/etc/init.d/mysql stop

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Usually you can find a program under a subdirectory "../bin". System programs are under /usr/bin or /bin. To check where files of mysql package are placed, on RHEL 6 type like this :

rpm -ql mysql (which is the main part of the package)

and the result is a list of "exe" files such as "mysqladmin" tool. About to know the version of the server, run the command:

mysqladmin -u "valid-user" version

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rpmquery <package Name> By this command you can check which package is installed.

For Example: rpmquery mysql

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