How do you uninstall MySQL from Mac OS X?

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Try running also

sudo rm -rf /var/db/receipts/com.mysql.*

I also had entries in:

/Library/Receipts/InstallHistory.plist

that i had to delete.

If you installed mysql through brew then we can use command to uninstall mysql.

$ brew uninstall mysql

Uninstalling /usr/local/Cellar/mysql/5.6.19...

This worked for me.

ps -ax | grep mysql

*stop and kill any MySQL processes

brew remove mysql
brew cleanup

sudo rm /usr/local/mysql
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/var/mysql
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/mysql*
sudo rm ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.mysql.plist
sudo rm -rf /Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM
sudo rm -rf /Library/PreferencePanes/MySql*

launchctl unload -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.mysql.plist

edit /etc/hostconfig and remove the line MYSQLCOM=-YES-

rm -rf ~/Library/PreferencePanes/My*    
sudo rm -rf /Library/Receipts/mysql*
sudo rm -rf /Library/Receipts/MySQL*
sudo rm -rf /private/var/db/receipts/*mysql*

*restart your computer just to ensure any MySQL processes are killed try to run mysql, it shouldn't work