---
title: "Standard MySQL 5.5 installation on debian using dotdeb"
date: "2012-01-25"
modified: "2013-03-04"
path: "/77-standard-mysql-5-5.html"
section: "/ramblings"
aliases:
  - "/77"
  - "/77-standard-mysql-5-5"
  - "/77.html"
  - "/ramblings/77-standard-mysql-5-5.html"
---

On debian the fastest way to setup MySQL 5.5 is just the following:

```
nano /etc/apt/sources.list

# for mysql 5.5
deb http://packages.dotdeb.org stable all
deb-src http://packages.dotdeb.org stable all

wget http://www.dotdeb.org/dotdeb.gpg
cat dotdeb.gpg | apt-key add -
apt-get update

apt-get install mysql-server-5.5
```

Now check your phpMyAdmin or similar management tool to see if the correct version is being reported (or use `mysql -v`).