carl moonan | the dude abides

Working as of 2007/05/22 … if you are reading this & this date is very old then these instructions may not work as they do now.

Installing MySQL is quite simple these days. There is a prebuilt DMG installer package at MySQl.com. It installs to /usr/local/mysql (sym link) so this fits right in with the other packages we have compiled and installed. There is also a handy system preferences widget to auto start the service and check its state.

Installer DMG (http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.0.html):
mysql-5.0.41-osx10.4-i686.dmg

Install location on machine:

/usr/local/mysql

Steps:
download installer

curl http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-5.0/mysql-5.0.41-osx10.4-i686.dmg/from/http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.mysql.com/ > mysql-5.0.41-osx10.4-i686.dmg

install

double click to mount the dmg. drag and drop the application icon to the application folder.

configure

install the system preferences widget and management tools. This will add a small widget to allow you to automatically start and stop the server.

These can be found here:
http://cocoamysql.sourceforge.net/
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/gui-tools/5.0.html

At this point MySQL should be built and installed to /usr/local/mysql/ you could add the bin folder to your path to pick up the latest version of the binaries.