Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: New here, with a question about databases

If you want to go with mysql, you will need the mysql server as well
as a gui to interface with it.

in the terminal type:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-workbench

to get get the basic server and front end (a gui from the mysql
developers) on your machine. Or you can just search for those two
packages in the package manager. A google search for "mysql gui
linux" may be useful in looking for alternative GUIs that best suits
your needs if the workbench is too complex (it looked pretty complex
to me, but then, I don't fool with database stuff...)

As far as why there are software centers and package managers... I
don't know. Ubuntu is like that too. I just use aptitude or apt-get
from the comand line.

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Meg <kimada.news@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hello again,
> Just to clarify - I don't need a spreadsheet, I need a database. I've been tracking all my income and expenses since I first started working for myself in 1997. Back then I had a Mac and was using FileMaker, but when I switched to PCs in 2003 I started using Works. I was especially glad that its database wasn't anything like Access, which at that point was the only one I hadn't been able to figure out (I was using it at a temp job). I've been using databases of one kind or another since 1985; most of them worked about the same way, but Access was different and just didn't make any sense to me.
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> I do use a spreadsheet for the summary data, but the individual transactions need to be in a database so I can manipulate the data and do different reports. I also don't want something just for financials because eventually I'll use it for other purposes. (I mentioned financials here only because that's all I currently use the DB for.)
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> Just one other thing. Based on the recommendations here I wanted to check out MySQL, but I haven't been able to locate it in either the Software Manager or the Package Manager (Mint has both; I'm not sure why or what the difference is). I've had a lot of trouble getting anything to install if I didn't use one of those managers, so I wanted to stay with those. But when I do a search for "mysql" there are so many results I don't know which to choose. Does anyone have any suggestions about that? I admit that Linux's file-naming baffles me.
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> Thanks again for your help.
>
> Meg
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