Installing on OS X
Apple's OS X (“OS Ten”) is a combination of a graphical front-end with a core operating system based on BSD. The ease-of-use of a Macintosh front-end is welded to a reliable Unix-based core.
The BSD core means that MySQL, PHP, Apache, and other applications that run on Linux, can normally be run on OS X.
You will need to have Administrator privilege to perform this installation. On OS X, this doesn't mean becoming root; it just requires that you log on as a user with Administrator privilege.
Download the binary file called something like mysql-4.0.1-alpha-apple-darwin5.1-powerpc.tar.gz (the filename depends on the MySQL version) from the MySQL Web site. When the download is finished, double-click the icon, and it should unpack ...
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