Installing and Uninstalling MySQL on Mac

MySQL installation and uninstallation

• Uninstalling MySQL
• MySQL installation
• MySQL configuration

Uninstalling MySQL

On Mac, you can check the status of MySQL in System Preferences, its path is under /usr/local by default, you can delete clean MySQL by following the steps below

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1. Close MySQL, click MySQL in System Preferences, then click Stop MySQL Server
   
   

2. Open the terminal, switch to the usr directory, open usr

3. Uninstall MySQL related files in the /local directory in sequence

   sudo rm /usr/local/mysql
   sudo rm -rf /usr/local/mysql*
   sudo rm -rf /Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM
   sudo rm -rf /Library/PreferencePanes/My*
   rm -rf ~/Library/PreferencePanes/My*
   sudo rm -rf/Library/Receipts/mysql*
   sudo rm -rf /Library/Receipts/MySQL*
   sudo rm -rf /var/db/receipts/com.mysql.*

4. View System Preferences, MySQL has been removed

MySQL Installation

1. Enter MySQL Community Edition, download the MySQL installation package for the corresponding system and version, and be careful not to download the compressed package.Archives on the right side of GA can download older versions of MySQL
   
2. After downloading the installation package, click next all the way, the 8.0.28 version can pre-configure the password, but some previous versions have default passwords that need to be remembered and then modified in the terminal
   
   
   

MySQL configuration

1. After the installation is complete, you can see the MySQL icon in System Preferences, after clicking it, you can see the MySQL configuration file storage location in Configuration
   
   
2. Configure system environment variables At this point, directly enter mysql in the terminal, and command not found
   will appear (1) FirstTerminal cd /usr/local/mysql/binCheck mysql installation
   
   (2) Add a path

• open ~/.bash_profile
in the terminal
• Add the statement PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/mysql/bin to the file, save it
• source ~/.bash_profile

3. Log in to MySQL, enter mysql -uroot -p in the terminal, and then enter the password to log in