If you have downloaded a binary version of MySQL that includes support for Berkeley DB, simply follow the usual binary distribution installation instructions. (MySQL-Max distributions include BDB support.)

If you build MySQL from source, you can enable BDB support by invoking configure with the --with-berkeley-db option in addition to any other options that you normally use. Download a distribution for MySQL 3.23.34 or newer, change location into its top-level directory, and run this command:

shell> ./configure --with-berkeley-db [other-options]

For more information, see Section 5.2, “The mysqld-max Extended MySQL Server”, Section 2.8, “Installing MySQL from tar.gz Packages on Other Unix-Like Systems”, and Section 2.9, “MySQL Installation Using a Source Distribution”.