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Re: How do I uninstall MySQL from Mac OSX
Posted by: Malcolm
Date: March 12, 2006 07:50AM

Hi Ed,

You are probably better to leave 4x there until you are sure everything is happening ok with 5.x before you trash it.

If you give more details on your osx version, and type of install you currently have it would help to give you more precise details.

If you are going to be using a binary install for 10.3 or 10.4 then as far as I know it just renames your existing folder which should be at /usr/local/mysql<version> to <..._bak> and creates a new one for the 5.x install as well as making a symlink to the 5.x folder in /usr/local

It explains it all very well in the html manual, so if you don't already have it, get the current 5.0.18 version from the downloads page and read up first.

If you decide later you are not happy, or some of your existing 4.x databases are having problems you can delete the symlink pointing to 5.x and recreate a new one to your old 4.x version. You should do dumps of your current databases from 4.x before you do the install, and then import them into 5.x once you have it all set up and running.

I still have 4.0.15 sitting on my drive just in case I have problems with 5.0.18

Hope it helps

Cheers,

Malcolm

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