Steps are simple: Download the sources ~ 14 MB extract it install ~ 30mb of packages via apt-get run autogen make && make install start it But it may some time, at least on my slow notebook (p4 mobile 1,73 ghz) autogen took 10 minutes, make took about 60 minutes and make install another 4 minutes, but if you ever compiled mysql-server yourself you now ... mysql may take some time :) So here in Det