Install MySQL5.0.15 in MacOS

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You can install MySQL on Mac OS x 10.2.x ("Jaguar") and up using a Mac OS X binary package in PKG format instead of the binary tarball distribution. please note that older versions of Mac OS X (for example, 10.1.x) are not supported

You can install MySQL on Mac OS X 10.2.x ("Jaruar") And up using a Mac OS x binary package in PKG format instead of the binary tarball distribution. Please note that older versions of Mac OS X (for example, 10.1.x) areNotSupported by this package.

The package is located inside a disk image (.dmg) File that you first need to mount by double-clicking its icon in the Finder. It shoshould then mount the image and display its contents.

Note: Before proceeding with the installation, be sure to shut down all running MySQL server instances by either using the MySQL Manager Application (on Mac OS X Server) orMysqladmin shutdownOn the command line.

To actually install the MySQL PKG file, double-click on the package icon. This launches the Mac OS X Package Installer, which guides you through the installation of MySQL.

Due to a bug in the Mac OS X package installer, you may see this error message in the destination disk selection dialog:

You cannot install this software on this disk. (null)

If this error occurs, simply clickGo BackButton once to return to the previous screen. Then clickContinueTo advance to the destination disk selection again, and you shocould be able to choose the destination disk correctly. We have reported this bug to Apple and it is investigating this problem.

The Mac OS X PKG of MySQL installitself/usr/local/mysql-VERSIONAnd also installa symbolic link,/usr/local/mysql, Pointing to the new location. If a directory named/usr/local/mysqlExists, it is renamed/usr/local/mysql.bakFirst. Additionally, the installer creates the grant tables inmysqlDatabase by executingMysql_install_dbAfter the installation.

The installation layout is similar to that ofTarFile binary distribution; all MySQL binaries are located in the directory/usr/local/mysql/bin. The MySQL socket file is created/tmp/mysql.sockBy default.

MySQL installation requires a Mac OS X user account namedmysql. A user account with this name shocould exist by default on Mac OS X 10.2 and up.

If you are running Mac OS x Server, you have a version of MySQL installed. The versions of MySQL that ship with Mac OS X Server versions are shown in the following table:

Mac OS X Server Version	MySQL Version
10.2-10.2.2	3.23.51
10.2.3-10.2.6	3.23.53
10.3	4.0.14
10.3.2	4.0.16
10.4.0	4.1.10a

This manual section covers the installation of the official MySQL Mac OS X PKG only. Make sure to read Apple's help information about installing MySQL: Run the"Help View"Application, select"Mac OS X Server"Help, do a search for"MySQL,"And read the item entitled"Installing MySQL."

For pre-installed versions of MySQL on Mac OS X Server, note especially that you should startMysqldWithSafe_mysqldInsteadMysqld_safeIf MySQL is older than version 4.0.

If you previusly used Marc Liyanage's MySQL packages for Mac OS X from http://www.entropy.ch, you can simply follow the update instructions for packages using the binary installation layout as given on his pages.

If you are upgrading from Marc's 3.23.xx versions or from the Mac OS X Server version of MySQL to the official MySQL PKG, you also need to convert the existing MySQL privilege tables to the current format, because some new security privileges have been added.

If you wowould like to automatically start up MySQL during system startup, you also need to install the MySQL Startup Item. for MySQL 5.0, it is part of the Mac OS X installation disk images as a separate installation package. simply double-clickMySQLStartupItem. pkgIcon and follow the instructions to install it.

Note that the Startup Item need be installed only once! There is no need to install it each time you upgrade the MySQL package later.

The Startup Item for MySQL 5.0 is installed/Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM. (Before MySQL 4.1.2, the location was/Library/StartupItems/MySQL, But that collided with the MySQL Startup Item installed by Mac OS X Server.) Startup Item installation adds a variableMYSQLCOM=-YES-To the system configuration file/etc/hostconfig. If you wowould like to disable the automatic startup of MySQL, simply change this variableMYSQLCOM=-NO-.

On Mac OS X Server, the default MySQL installation uses the variableMYSQLIn/etc/hostconfigFile. The MySQL AB Startup Item installer disables this variable by setting itMYSQL=-NO-. This avoids boot time conflicts withMYSQLCOMVariable used by the MySQL AB Startup Item. However, it does not shut down a running MySQL server. You shoshould do that yourself.

After the installation, you can start up MySQL by running the following commands in a terminal window. You must have administrator privileges to perform this task.

If you have installed the Startup Item:

shell> sudo /Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM/MySQLCOM start(Enter your password, if necessary)(Press Control-D or enter "exit" to exit the shell)

If you don't use the Startup Item, enter the following command sequence:

shell> cd /usr/local/mysqlshell> sudo ./bin/mysqld_safe(Enter your password, if necessary)(Press Control-Z)shell> bg(Press Control-D or enter "exit" to exit the shell)

You shoshould be able to connect to the MySQL server, for example, by running/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql.

Note: The accounts that are listed in the MySQL grant tables initially have no passwords.

You might want to add aliases to your shell's resource file to make it easier to access commonly used programs suchMysqlAndMysqladminFrom the command line. The syntaxTcshIs:

alias mysql /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqlalias mysqladmin /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqladmin

ForBash, Use:

alias mysql=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqlalias mysqladmin=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqladmin

Even better, add/usr/local/mysql/binTo yourPATHEnvironment variable. For example, add the following line to your$HOME/.tcshrcFile if your shell isTcsh:

setenv PATH ${PATH}:/usr/local/mysql/bin

If no.tcshrcFile exists in your home directory, create it with a text editor.

If you are upgrading an existing installation, please note that installing a new MySQL PKG does not remove the directory of an older installation. unfortunately, the Mac OS X Installer does not yet offer the functionality required to properly upgrade previusly installed packages.

To use your existing databases with the new installation, you'll need to copy the contents of the old data directory to the new data directory. make sure that neither the old server nor the new one is running when you do this. after you have copied over the MySQL database files from the previous installation and have successfully started the new server, you shocould consider removing the old installation files to save disk space. additionally, you shoshould also remove older versions of the Package receept directories located in/Library/Receipts/mysql-VERSION.pkg.