How to create a portable MySQL installation on GNU/Linux

This tutorial shows how to create a portable MySQL installation on GNU/Linux. It applies to:

MySQL 5.5.19
CentOS 6.x / Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot

At the end of this guide you will obtain a portable MySQL installation on a target directory with its own databases, binaries, logs, pid files, etc.  Consider always the use of a permission preserving packaging (like TAR) for moving the

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