MySQL 5.5 not getting installed in Mac OS 10.6?

[Bhuvana21]

Going through a hard time for installing MYSQL5.5 in Mac OS 10.6.I have been trying it from many days nor my friends are able to do it can anyone please take me out of this situation any clues hints to solve this problem would be really appreciated very much please guys help me hope am not the only one suffering with this problem?

[Ronchi]

Well friend am the victim for this to I have also been trying to work out with installing MYSQL5.5 in Mac OS 10.6 and it wasn’t done for a long time I was suggested a few suggestion from my friend I would like to discuss about one of the view I would give some two step which you can try out and see if it works so 1) Try to modify a mysql.server script command

(sudo/Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/Text Edit /usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server)

2) Now in second step locate the configuration by defining the basedir and

(basedir=/usr/local/mysql 
Datadir=/usr/local/mysql/data)

and now save the file and start MYSQL server in the terminal.

[Menominee]

I was going to a problem which displays something like this

(/usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server: Line 256:my_print_default: command not found and starting MySQL error could not find MYSQL server (./bin/mysql_safe))

then you are having the same problem what I faced but don’t worry if this is the case you can solve it just edit the MYSQL. Server file located in

/usr/local/mysql/support-files/

do this in the terminal using emac or use Bbedit now simply search for a line which would look like this

basedir=datadir

and simply change it to

basedir=(/usr/local/mysqldatadir=(/usr/local/mysql/data)

and then simply reboot your pc and try running MySQL now hope it would be working .

[Author]

Hope you have download MYSQL for MACOS X the one I downloaded was MYSQL for MACOS X Version 10.6 (x86, 64-bit) .After you download this there are some step and syntax script to make this MYSQL work on your OS and then you have to configure the database . After the simple step-by-step installation guidance, you would find the configuration steps to enable you to access the MySQL Monitor from a terminal session. Your $PATH environment would also be configured to enable you to start and stop the MYSQL Daemon.

[Jacques25]

1. It has been a headache to me to installing MYSQL in MAC OS X has really taken all lots of time of mine searching for a perfect solution but hasn’t got an exact solution still but what I have got some what that can be used as a clue for you may it help you go to the security setting

($ sudochown -R root:wheel/Library/Startup Items/MySQLCOM
)

and then set the basedir and datadir in

/usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server

set them to

Basedir= /usr/local/mysql
Datadir= /usr/local/mysql/data

Let’s hope the best that it works for you