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The MySQL Preference Pane shows the current status of the MySQL server, showing stopped  (in red) if the server is not running and running  (in green) if the server has already been started. The preference pane also shows the current setting for whether the MySQL server has been set to start automatically. 

## 2.5 Installing MySQL on Linux 

Linux supports a number of different solutions for installing MySQL. We recommend that you use one of the distributions from Oracle, for which several methods for installation are available: 

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