At 22:39 -0800 1/21/04, Daniel Lahey wrote:
Ok, I've read the release notes, the manual, the threads on this
mailing list, installed/removed/re-installed about 5 times, tried
4.0.1, 4.1, 5.0, and I can't get MySQL to run on my Mac (dual-proc
867MHz, 768MB RAM). When I run configure, it tells me everything is
hunky-dory and that I should just be happy and run mysqld. I try to
run mysqld and it immediately aborts and tells me that
/tmp/mysql.sock isn't set up. If I try to run mysqladmin -u root
Exact command used to start mysqld, and exact text of the error messages,
please -- not a text description of what happened.
password <password> just like the manual tells me to, it aborts as
above and tells me to run mysqld (or mysqld_safe). The manual tells
me I can "just
That makes sense. mysqladmin has to connect to the server. If the server
isn't running, none of the client programs will work.
click on the dmg file and follow the instructions." I've done that
for both the distribution and the startup item several times (and
re-started several times in between). I've read the manual about
security and the root user account as the message instructed me to
do. No help. I even tried to compile the control center using the
instructions I found for that, installed Qt as instructed, compiled
it (I think, the instructions for that were along the lines of: "Now
just compile it and you're all done!" Hah! Do you hear me? Hah, I
say.) The "instructions" don't tell me where to install it or how
to test for a valid installation. When I try to compile CC it says
"install Qt first." I did. 3 times. In 3 different places.
Copied all of the include and lib files all over the freakin' hard
drive to try to make it happy. Not happy.
Ok, now, are there REAL instructions for installing some working
version of MySQL on a Mac somewhere? What do I REALLY have to do?
Has someone actually documented the entire process or does the
documentation consist of the vague, scattered hints I've been able
to find? I'd love to check out MySQL, but do I have to learn a
secret handshake or pledge allegiance to Open Source or something?
Thanks for any help. Sorry to rant, but I've been working on this
for three days now.
- Dan
P.S. Any notes on using it with Xcode would be appreciated, too.
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