Can i download mac os x 10.6 snow leopard install#
That had been a pain to install as well but not like this. The server was rebuilt and of course MySQL 5.5.8 didn't work. I don't post a lot but everybody's posting here and on so many boards helped me so much! None of them gave me the right answer mind you, but here is my unique solution to this nightmare of a spending 2 solid days trying to install MySQL 5.5.9 on Snow Leopard 10.6. At the very least, it's good enough to run mysqldump on all my databases, so that if I need to upgrade mysql by other means and dump my data directory, I'm still in good shape.įirst of all can I just say that I really really love the Internet community for all that it does in providing answers to everybody. To make sure mysqld is running, type:ġ220 ttys000 0:00.02 /bin/sh.
You can now do the usual CTRL-Z to get back to the shell. Now you can go to the right directory and start up mysql:Ĭd /usr/local/mysql-5.0.51a-osx10.5-x86_64 This is critical, because unless you carefully backed up all your databases with mysqldump before running the Leopard upgrade, that's where all your data lives - and restoring it simply from a whole-hard-drive backup is going to be hard. This creates a symbolic link from the /usr/local/mysql directory to the location where MySQL is.
I've got my copy working by doing the following: In order just to get MySQL working again (I haven't yet looked at startup), there is no need to reinstall.