You can install the Connector/J package drivers using either the binary, binary installation or source installation. The binary method is easy which is a bundle of necessary libraries and other files pre-built, with an installer program. The source installation method is important where you want to customize or modifies the installation process or for those platforms where a binary installation package is not available. Apart from that solution, you manually add the Connector/J location to your Java classpath.
MySQL Connector/J is distributed as a .zip or .tar.gz archive containing the sources, the class files. After extracting the distribution archive, you can install the driver by placing MySQL-connector-java-version-bin.jar in your classpath, either by adding the full path to it to your classpath environment variable or by directly specifying it with the command line switch -cp when starting the JVM.
You can set the classpath environment variable under Unix, Linux or Mac OS X either locally for a user within their .profile, .login or another login file. You can also set it globally by editing the global /etc/profile file.
For example add the Connector/J driver to your classpath using one of the following forms, depending on your command shell :