Need help activating Macports install of MySQL5 on Snow Leopard

[Brandon Allbery]

On Dec 14, 2009, at 19:24 , William H. Magill wrote:
> Today, I have had occasion to install mysql for the first time -- I  
> need it for a backend to a separate program.
>
> Macports has been working fine after upgrading to Snow Leopard and  
> re-installing,  and I have been using it for the things I've used it  
> for in the past... no problems.
> I'm a UNIX Systems Administrator by background, with virtually zero  
> DBA experience. (And the little I had was with Ingress under VMS,  
> long ago.)
>
> All of the documentation at dev.mysql.com I can find is for Leopard.  
> (And for their pre-packaged install GUIs).
>
> The macports "port install mysql5" has worked fine... all the  
> components and pre-requsites  are apparently installed (someplace,  
> which is a separate problem).


I would imagine most of your problems would be solved if you did "port  
install mysql5-server". "mysql5" is just the client libraries, which  
are required by lots of other things that don't necessarily care about  
a local server.

-- 
brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery at kf8nh.com
system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery at ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university    KF8NH



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