[poulh]

I want to play around w/ MySQL on my G4 iMac (osX 10.2.4).

The only thing I'm worried about is if it puts files throughout my computer and it is going to be a pain to get rid of them all later on. Is it?

[SofaKing$]

install it using fink, then when you are done, and you want to get rid of it (and fink to), delete the /sw directory.

good luck!

[Colonel_Panic]

I would have suggest doing it yours self, with otu fink. Then just remove the /usr/local/mysql folder when your done playing around with it.

On a side note if you are really worried about it you could look into a free host that supports PHP and mysql I know ish.biz is about as good as you can get for free.

[poulh]

How do they do it for free? Are there pop-up ads?

[Colonel_Panic]

Nope. Its just.. Free... You only get like 15 MB of space though

[suthercd]

MySql is normally installed in ./usr/local/mysql. To remove the bulk of it, remove that directory and the sub-directories contained in it.

HTH

Craig

[philzilla]

forget fink, then use this, when/if it's time to uninstall

[poulh]

It looks like I have to give ish.biz my credit card number to sign up. Is this true?

[Colonel_Panic]

No, select printed check or what ever it says about check... They wont charge, You will get e-mails that say we will be charging you 0$ please have the check into us by blah blah

[philzilla]

Originally posted by poulh:
It looks like I have to give ish.biz my credit card number to sign up. Is this true?

give it to me, with the expiry date, and the name printed on the card, and i'll pass it on to them

[gatorparrots]

You can install Aaron Faby's (Server Logistics) pre-built packaged version of MySQL for OS X. It installs in /Library/MySQL so if you want to uninstall it later, an admin user can drag that directory to the Trash.
http://www.aaronfaby.com/mysql.php