MySQL Load Balancer is provided as a TAR/GZipped package. To install, extract the package:

$ gzip -cd load-balancer mysql-load-balancer-0.7.0-438-linux-fc4-x86-32bit.tar.gz | tar xf -

The standard package contents are organized into four directories:

/bin
/lib
/sbin
/share

The bin contains wrapper scripts around the dynamically linked binaries in sbin. The lib directory contains the required libraries, and the share directory contains the scripts and support files used by the MySQL Load Balancer during execution.

You can run MySQL Load Balancer directly from this directory, or you can copy the contents to a a global directory, such as /usr/local:

$ cp -R * /usr/local/