Hope this is the correct place to put this question.
i am new to linux and am runnning ubuntu 12.04. I just installed Netbeans 7.0.1 and xampp 1.8.1, both running on ubuntu. i would like to make a c++ program that uses the MySql database that comes with xampp. I knnow in java in windows i would have to get the connector and all would work just fine. what do i have to do in such a case where i want to run this in c++ on ubuntu?

and please guide me to a tutorial i may read

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