Installing MySQL on OS X Mountain Lion

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I was having some issues getting MySQL installed on OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, and
then I came across a useful article
(http://madebyhoundstooth.com/blog/install-mysql-on-mountain-lion-with-homebrew/)
describing how to do it.

Here’s the important information from the article to install MySQL on OS X 10.8
Mountain Lion using Homebrew:

Install Homebrew (http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/#selectable)

$ ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)"

Install MySQL using Homebrew

$ brew install mysql

Add MySQL to your LaunchAgents, so it can launch on startup

$ mkdir -p ~/Library/LaunchAgents
$ cp /usr/local/Cellar/mysql/5.5.27/homebrew.mxcl.mysql.plist
~/Library/LaunchAgents/
$ launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.mysql.plist

Unset TMPDIR (as this isn’t set to /tmp for non-root users) and install the
MySQL system tables

$ unset TMPDIR
$ mysql_install_db --verbose --user=`whoami` --basedir="$(brew --prefix mysql)"
--datadir=/usr/local/var/mysql --tmpdir=/tmp

Set the root password for MySQL

$ /usr/local/Cellar/mysql/5.5.27/bin/mysqladmin -u root password
'YOUR_NEW_PASSWORD'

And lastly, start MySQL

$ mysql.server start

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Published August 28, 2012

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