Installing MySQL on macOS X

OS X versions before 10.7 had MySQL Server installed by default. If you are using OS X 10.7 or later, then you will need to download and install MySQL Community Server from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/.

There are many different ways to install MySQL on OS X. See http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/osx-installation.html for installation instructions for OS X. Note that users on OS X should have administrator privileges to install MySQL Server.

Once you install the server, you can start it either from Command Prompt or from the system preferences:

  1. To start it from Command Prompt, execute the following command in the Terminal:
sudo /usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server start
  1. To start it from ...

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