
(Note: To save some typing, you can type a few characters, and then press the tab key, to make Windows show you various auto-completion options.) For example, if you downloaded the MySQL installer, type something like: Change to the directory with the MySQL installer.A window asks: Do you want to allow this app to make changes to your device? Click: Yes.Right-click the Start/Windows icon in the bottom-left corner of Windows.(Note: if you have any problems in the following steps, you can try to restart your computer. But no luck yetĪnyone has any suggestion on this or did anyone face this kind of issue before? If so, is there a fix or a work around for this?Īlternative solution: Use an administrator command prompt to run the MySQL installer on Windows 10. I tried to restart my computer and then delete any files related to MySQL from my computer and then started the whole process of installation again. So it seems something is wrong as I don't think MySQL installation needs this long time. Like more than 7-8 hours and the installation never completes Once the download was complete, I double clicked on the installer and it gave a usual pop-up for any installation like,"Do you want this app to make changes to your device?" after clicking on "yes" for the answer to this question, it shows " Please wait while Windows configures MySQL-Installer-community" like below screenshot.Īnd then it keeps showing this installation progress bar for a very long time.Clicked on " Windows (x86, 32-bit), MSI Installer" (mysql-installer-community-5.7.21.0.msi) and it started the download.Scrolled to Generally Available(GA) Releases section.I downloaded the installer package and followed those steps
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I am trying to install MySQL on a Windows 10 PC.
