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Installing MySQL on Mac OSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard)

by Simon. Average Reading Time: less than a minute.

If you’re comfortable with installing applications on your Mac and are reasonably familiar with MySQL, installing MySQL on Snow Leopard should be relatively simple.

  1. Download the Mac OSX disk image from the MySQL website:

    http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.1.html#macosx-dmg

    I used the mysql-5.1.42-osx10.5-x86_64.dmg disk image, which seems to work fine. The image contains 4 files including a ReadMe file.

  2. Install the following packages found in the disk image to the default location and with the default options: 
    mysql-5.1.42-osx10.5-x86_64.pkg
MySQLStartupItem.pkg
  3. Install the following profile found in the disk image to the default location and with the default options: 
    MySQL.prefPanel
  4. Start the MySQL service in the System Preferences panel and check the Automatically Start the MySQL Service on Startup option.

That is all you need to do. However, if you’re working with PHP, you will need to correctly reference the mysql.sock file in your php.ini file. To do this, find the following line and ensure the reference is correct:

mysql.default_socket = /tmp/mysql.sock

(Remember to restart Apache if you make changes to your php.ini file.)

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  • http://squarefactor.com/ Shawn

    A friend of mine just had great luck using http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/ for mysql, etc. I plan to try it when the next macbook pro is available.

  • http://squarefactor.com/ Shawn

    A friend of mine just had great luck using http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/ for mysql, etc. I plan to try it when the next macbook pro is available.

  • Simon

    Thankyou for your simple and easy to follow guide. Appreciated.

  • Janusz

    That helped. Thanks!

     

  • Siva Puvvada

    This helped. Thanks

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_R2FYMSHMLOZOJA6JLGT3UWYFKU Rob

    Simon,

    Thank you so much for keeping it simple and to the point, I was missing the GUI component.
    Your article made the process quick and painless.

    Rob from San Francisco.

  • Ngo Hoang Lien

    good

  • Alex

    Also needPATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:/usr/local/mysql/binto use mysql from console

  • Munim Anees

    Good guide. Great! thanks