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My install instructions on the web site were old, somebody wanted me to publish another set of screen capture for the MySQL 5.6 install and configuration. This is it for Windows 7 using the downloadable MSI file.

Installation Steps

The installation from MySQL’s perspective is actually the installation and configuration of MySQL. For your convenience and reference, I’ve already installed the pre-requisites for MySQL. They’re:

• Visual Studio Tools for Office 20120 Runtime
• Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Client Profile
• Microsoft Excel 2007 or greater
• Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Client Profile
• Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 32-bit runtime
• Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Client Profile

Below are the installation steps after you download the current release .msi file. The icon should look like the one to the right. For this example, I”m using the mysql-installer-community-5.6.11.0.msi. Double-click the icon on your desktop or from your C:\Users\username\Downloads folder. While working through the steps, you can launch any of the small images to the left if you’d like to see what your screen should look like (generally with a right click to open in a new window).

1. The first screen is a Windows 7 dialog box. Click the Run button to install launch the MySQL 5.6 Installer.

2. The second screen is a Windows 7 dialog box. It advises you that the MySQL Installer is working and lets you cancel that operation. Don’t click the Cancel button unless you want to stop the MySQL 5.6 Installer.

3. The third screen is a MySQL Installer message box. It closes when ready to proceed. Ignore it, unless it’s there for more than a couple minutes. If that occurs you’ve got something wrong with your Windows installation or a very slow computer. If the former, kill the installation process; if the latter, wait patiently.

4. The fourth screen in the process is the first MySQL Installer screen. Here you choose what you want to do. You can install MySQL products, inquire about MySQL, or check physical resource components. Provided you installed the prerequisites listed above, you should be prepared to install MySQL Products. Click the Install MySQL Products link to proceed or one of the others to explore.

5. The second MySQL Installer screen is the license form. You must check the I accept the license terms checkbox to enable the Next button. Once the Next button is enabled, click it to proceed.

6. The third MySQL Installer screen connects to the Internet and finds the latest product update. You can check the Skip the check for updates (not recommended) checkbox to skip this but for the example we’ll check anyway. Click the Execute button to proceed.

7. The fourth MySQL Installer screen connects to the Internet and finds the latest product update. You can check the Skip the check for updates (not recommended) checkbox to skip this but for the example we’ll check anyway. Click the Execute button to proceed.

8. The fifth MySQL Installer screen acknowledges the latest update is what you’re installing. Click the Next button to proceed.

9. The sixth MySQL Installer screen gives you five choices for the installation, which are listed below. You most likely want to install the Developer Default, so click the Developer Default radio button and then, click the Next button to proceed.

   MySQL Server

   Both the client and server software for the MySQL Server

   MySQL Workbench

   The GUI application to develop for and manage the server.

   MySQL Visual Studio Plugin

   To work with the MySQL Server from VS.

   MySQL Connectors

   Connector/Net, Java, C/C++, OBDC and others.

   Examples and tutorials

   To help you get started with your development.

   Documentation

   Allows you to read the documentation offline.

10. The seventh MySQL Installer screen performs a system check for the pre-requisites, which I listed before the installation. Assuming you installed them, you should see a screen that confirms your system configuration is ready for installation. Click the Next button to proceed.

11. The eighth MySQL Installer screen performs displays the products that it’ll install, which are listed below and available in the full image to the left. Click the Execute button to install the products.

    • MySQL Server 5.6.11
    • MySQL Workbench CE 5.2.47
    • MySQL Notifier 1.0.3
    • MySQL for Excel 1.1.1
    • Connector/ODBC 5.2.4
    • Connector/C++ 1.1.2
    • Connector/C++ 1.1.2
    • Connector/J 5.1.24
    • Connector/NET 6.6.5
    • MySQL Documentation 5.6.11
    • Samples and Examples 5.6.11

12. The nineth MySQL Installer screen shows the installation by product and it can take a couple minutes. The screen to the left displays progress more than halfway complete. You don’t need to do anything in this step until all products are complete.

13. The tenth MySQL Installer screen shows the completed installation. Everything should install successfully, as shown in the image. Click the Next button to proceed.

This concludes the installation of the MySQL products. The next section shows you how to configure MySQL.

Configuration Steps

You have two basic options, the simple one and the advanced one. These steps will show you how to perform an advanced configuration. I’ve opted to maintain the step numbering from the beginning of the installation. Here are the steps:

14. The eleventh MySQL Installer screen is the first MySQL Configuration screen. You can click the Show Details button or begin the configuration. Click the Next button to proceed.

15. The second MySQL Configuration screen sets the server configuration type, enables TCP/IP networking (as opposed to a socket model), and lets you enable Advanced Configuration. For this installation, we enable the Show Advanced Options checkbox before you click the Next button.

16. The third MySQL Configuration screen sets the password and lets you create MySQL User Accounts. It’s much easier to let the install proceed and use MySQL Workbench to create databases, users, and roles; plus grant permissions through the GUI environment. Enter the root password twice, a trivial and unsecure password cangetin is what I recommend to my students who won’t have any meaningful information in the database. Make sure you can remember the password you enter. Clearly, a better password is required for real environments. After entering the password twice, click the Next button to proceed.

17. The fourth MySQL Configuration screen sets the Windows Service Name, and you should probably make sure there isn’t another MySQL56 service on the machine before you proceed. You have the choice of running the Windows Service using the Standard System Account or a Customer User account. Unless you’re an expert at Windows 7 administration, you should probably choose the Standard System Account as the one running the Windows 7 service. Click the Next button.

18. The fifth MySQL Configuration screen sets the logging options. You only need Show Query Log typically, but the Error Log is helpful. Make the choices and click the Next button.

19. The sixth MySQL Configuration screen explains the next step. It installs the sample files and example databases. You can see what you’ve installed when you click the Show Details button, which is what I did to get the image at the left. The default choice installs the samples and example databases, which can’t hurt. You’ll need the test database if you install DBD::mysql for Perl. If you don’t want them, you can drop them from the database.

20. The seventh MySQL Configuration screen explains you’ve completed configuring the MySQL Server. Click the Next button to proceed.

21. The eighth MySQL Configuration screen explains you’ve finished everything. You can copy the log file to clipboard, which allows you to see everything that was done. Click the Finish button to complete the installation and configuration.

Just one caveat (that’s a warning), this installation doesn’t put the MySQL executable into your System %PATH% variable. You’ll need to do that, and if I get a chance I’ll put a post together for that. I know one or two of my students may need it later.

I hope this helps those you are using the new installer for the first time. It’s a superior tool to the old one, which was also a good tool.