How to install MySQL 5.6 on OSX Mojave?

Question

I need to install MySQL 5.6 on my Mac, running under Mojave. (Because AWS Aurora Serverless only allows MySQL 5.6)

That wouldn't be an issue if a .dmg was available, but there are none for MacOS for this particular version, too old I guess?

See https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.6.html

No Mac OS in the list. I tried to play around with the URL to see if there was a non-reference dmg file, but no luck.

Which leads me to two choices:

• Install it from source (is it possible? how?)
• Install it in a Docker container

I don't know what's the most simple/straightforward way to install it. It's only meant to be used locally.

Answer 1

To install:

brew install [email protected]

To have launchd start [email protected] now and restart at login:

brew services start [email protected]

Or, if you don't want/need a background service you can just run:

/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/bin/mysql.server start

Answer 2

I'd recommend using homebrew to be honest. I think it's brew install [email protected] if you have homebrew installed already.

You may need to also add the install bin directory to your system path, but the command output will tell you what to do if so.