Ubuntu – How to install MySQL client on 10.04

You can leave the regular MySQL installation in place if you like and then follow the instructions in the MySQL Cluster quick-start guide to install, configure and run MySQL Cluster from the tar ball.

Since MySQL 5.1.X is only available in the repositories for 10.04 (Not 12.04), I started searching for others with the same issue. Found a script in github (Thanks kamermans)

Which shows the following:

#!/bin/bash

set -e

cd ~/
wget http://downloads.mysql.com/archives/mysql-5.1/mysql-5.1.65.tar.gz
tar -zxf mysql-5.1.65.tar.gz
cd mysql-5.1.65
./configure  '--prefix=/usr' '--exec-prefix=/usr' '--libexecdir=/usr/sbin' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--localstatedir=/var/lib/mysql' '--includedir=/usr/include' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-system-type=debian-linux-gnu' '--enable-shared' '--enable-static' '--enable-thread-safe-client' '--enable-assembler' '--enable-local-infile' '--with-fast-mutexes' '--with-big-tables' '--with-unix-socket-path=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' '--with-mysqld-user=mysql' '--with-libwrap' '--without-readline' '--with-ssl' '--without-docs' '--with-extra-charsets=all' '--with-plugins=max' '--with-embedded-server' '--with-embedded-privilege-control'
make
sudo make install

Tested the script and it works. It still downloads the 5.1.65 version and configure/makes it. you can also change that to the last 5.1.x version which is 5.1.72 and still works.

I also recommend reading "Can't connect to local MySQL server through" socket error to solve some issues regarding socket problems.