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How to remove installation of MySQL on Mac OS X

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I need to install older version of mysql server on mac os, but I have a newer version.

I tried to remove this newer installation (5.1), but when start old version install (5.0b) message "MySQL 5.0.51b-community for Mac OS X can't be installed in this disk. A newer version of this software alrady exists on this disk".

I can't recognize problem, because I remove all data of previouse install, but installer says no.

Mac OS version 10.6.

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duganets Avatar asked Sep 16 '09 09:09

duganets


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Try running also

sudo rm -rf /var/db/receipts/com.mysql.* 
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Sophie Alpert Avatar answered Sep 28 '22 20:09

Sophie Alpert