Depending on the distro, you may be able to do it through 'APT' (debain) or 'YUM' (redhat) without having to manually compile the source.

But i found this little article on compiling from source. Pretty easy really if you have compiled software from source on linux before:
http://www.codeitwell.com/installing...-on-linux.html

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mysql> SELECT * FROM `users` WHERE `users`.`clue` > 0;
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