[Fink-beginners] problems with MySQL installation

[Richard Lanyon]

Basically, I've installed MySQL on my system several times, in several ways (compiled from source, package from entropy.ch, etc), and decided that my hard disk was becoming a mess, and that really I should be doing stuff like this with fink. So I've installed fink, which as far as I can tell is fine. However, attempting to install the 'mysql' package has problems ('mysql-shlibs' is fine). I have, I think, removed all traces of the original MySQL installations, though I could be wrong.

Originally I got errors saying that the installation process couldn't chown /sw/var/mysql/test or /sw/var/mysql/mysql (i.e. the databases it installs by default) because the files weren't there. True enough, /sw/var/mysql was there, but was an empty directory. I reckoned this might be a permissions issue - that the /sw/var/mysql was owned incorrectly (perhaps by a mysql user/group created in a previous installation), and so the databases weren't being created properly. So I removed the user and group from the NetInfo database, and also from /etc/passwd and /etc/group, uninstalled almost all of the optional fink packages, and started again. Now I get a different error - this time it says 'chown: mysql: invalid user name'.

This is OS X, 10.2.2, on a 500 MHz G3 iMac. Any ideas?

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