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. Opened up the MySQL Preference Pane and tada! it worksįirst of all can I just say that I really really love the Internet community for all that it does in providing answers to everybody.

Did a manual compile and installation of MySQL as per these instructions.

Installed 64bit version of MySQL Server packet from.

to get the preference pane working I did the following: You can manually start it as root with the command: /usr/loca/mysql/bin/mysqld_safe The solution was to follow the steps to build MySQL from source found here. Along with making sure you install the 64bit version, also check to make sure that the symbolic link of '/usr/local/mysql' is pointing to the correct version of your installation: lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 27B Aug 29 01:24 mysql -> mysql-5.1.37-osx10.5-x86_64ĭrwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102B Aug 29 01:25 mysql-5.1.30-osx10.5-x86ĭrwxr-xr-x 11 root wheel 374B Aug 29 15:59 mysql-5.1.37-osx10.5-x86_64ĭrwxr-xr-x 17 root wheel 578B Jul 13 22:06 mysql-5.1.37-osx10.5-x86_64.oldĪlos, I found that after my installation, even though I used the pkg file from MySQL various other libraries would not build against the installation.

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