Installing MYSQL on snow leopard problems

Question

I am trying to install mysql on snow leopard and having some problems.

I followed these steps in the hivelogic blog

http://hivelogic.com/articles/compiling-mysql-on-snow-leopard

all goes well but when i get to the final step i try to do

mysql -uroot 

i get this

-bash: mysql: command not found

what am i doing wrong

Answer 1

Step 1: Set the PATH

Did you do that (including the "source ~/.profile" bit)? Your shell cannot find the mysql command. So, you have either not installed it at all or installed in a location not listed in your PATH environment variable.

You can run a spotlight query from the command line to find all occurances of the mysql command like this:

$ mdfind mysql | grep '/mysql$'