As luck would have it, MySQL Co. et. al. has released the latest version of their MySQL database server, version 5.0.33 in source-code format. While this is great from a free-software point of view, it isn’t so much with the user community at large who just want the software to work. Those of us who are not adept at building packages are in a vexing situation.

This is my second MySQL posting in the same day. For s’n'g’s (shites ‘n giggles), I have built MySQL 5.1.14 from the source tarball freely available at MySQL’s website. This is apparently a beta release, so use at your own risk.

In light of JD’s recent blog article regarding MySQL’s source release only for MySQL 5.0.30, I am releasing a binary version of MySQL 5.0.30 for the Ubuntu Linux distribution in .deb format.