Comments on: Mac OS X MySQL Install

By: maclochlainn

maclochlainn — Fri, 24 May 2013 06:00:14 +0000

What's in your /etc/hosts file?

By: jim

jim — Tue, 21 May 2013 22:18:30 +0000

Hi-
I have installed 5.6.11 on Mac OS 10.8.3. Install seemed to go OK, but I have the following issue.
If I try to get to mysql without specifying a host, or by specifying localhost, I get the following error:

mysql -uroot
Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/tmp/mysql.sock’

mysql -uroot -hlocalhost
Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/tmp/mysql.sock’

But if I specify a numeric host, it works fine-
mysql -uroot -h127.0.0.1
…
mysql>

Any thoughts as to what might be causing this? And how I could fix it? Ideally, I would not need to specify a host when connecting to a local db…

By: Jonny

Jonny — Tue, 21 May 2013 07:34:58 +0000

ok i found my mistake it was the mistake in the path itself/usr/local/mysql-5.5.11-osx10.6-x86_64
instead of/usr/local/mysql-5.6.11-osx10.6-x86_64
but now when i write echo $PATH it also return me the/usr/local/mysql-5.5.11-osx10.6-x86_64
and /usr/local/mysql-5.6.11-osx10.6-x86_64
how to delete it

By: Jonny

Jonny — Sun, 19 May 2013 09:14:15 +0000

thanks, i moved my .bash_login to /Users/myusername and now i can start and stop mysql server from mysqlstart and mysqlstop command, also mysqlstatus works.
but which -a mysql have no any response.
can you help me with that please?

my .bash_login path is # Set the MySQL Home environment variable to point to the root directory of the MySQL installation.
export set MYSQL_HOME=/usr/local/mysql-5.5.11-osx10.6-x86_64

# Add the /bin directory from the MYSQL_HOME location into your $PATH environment variable.
export set PATH=$PATH:$MYSQL_HOME/bin

By: maclochlainn

maclochlainn — Fri, 17 May 2013 23:46:03 +0000

It should be in your user’s home directory:

/Users/username

By: Jonny

Jonny — Thu, 16 May 2013 06:10:32 +0000

I did all the way to the command . ./.bash_login
the answer was: -bash: ./.bash_login: No such file or directory
and for which -a mysql
there wasn’t any response at all.

i am using mountain lion 10.8.3
installing mysql version mysql-5.6.11-osx10.6-x86_64

i am totally new into mac, but i used to work on linux before….long time ago….so i forgot some of the basics…

my questions are:
where .bash_login should be create (under which path)
after i edited the .bash_login how should i restart the shell
why both commands don’t have response like you wrote here

By: Terry

Terry — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 22:17:01 +0000

These instructions are excellent and got mySQL up and running on my iMac easily and quickly. Thanks so much for posting these instructions maclochlainn

By: Carlos

Carlos — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 18:19:16 +0000

These are the instructions that should be on the official MySQL website. Great job! If only all tech setup instructions were this clear and helpful. many thanks maclochlainn.

By: maclochlainn

maclochlainn — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 21:02:24 +0000

Thanks, I’ve updated the post with the new aliases.

By: maclochlainn

maclochlainn — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 21:01:54 +0000

I got a chance to update the post today. Let me know if you think it works?