Hi, hopefully someone can help me. I am trying to set up LAMP on Fedora 11 starting with MySql. I downloaded the mysql-5.1.40.tar.gz tarball and unpacked it all. This created the mysql-5.1.40 directory. Next I ran the
./configure command.
Following this I ran the make command to compile but got the following:

'No targets specified and no makefile found'

and for the make install command I got:

'No rule to make target install'


Any help on this or how to set up LAMP properly would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Patrick.

First: why do you want/need to compile MySQL yourself? As far as I know, Fedora has it in it's repositories, which means a (about) 5 minute install, instead of a half-hour compile

Second: are you sure the configure ran completely. If it exited because of a problem, it won't generate a Makefile, and you won't be able to compile.

Fedora does have it's own repositories and there is no need to compile the sources yourself. This is what you should do

1) Become root by using su -
2) yum install mysql mysql-server
To run your mysql server type:
3) /etc/init.d/mysqld start

I hope this answeres your quesiton.