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Joseph Ravenwolfe
Joseph Ravenwolfe

Reputation: 6590

How do you uninstall MySQL from Mac OS X?

I accidentally installed the PowerPC version of MySQL on my Intel Mac in Snow Leopard, and it installed without a problem but of course doesn't run properly. I just didn't pay enough attention. Now when I try to install the correct x86 version it says that it can't install because a newer version is already installed. A Google query led me to perform these actions/delete these files to uninstall it:

sudo rm /usr/local/mysql
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/mysql*
sudo rm -rf /Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM
sudo rm -rf /Library/PreferencePanes/MySQL*
rm -rf ~/Library/PreferencePanes/MySQL*
sudo rm -rf /Library/Receipts/mysql*
sudo rm -rf /Library/Receipts/MySQL*

And finally removed the line MYSQLCOM=-YES- from /etc/hostconfig

They haven't seemed to help at all. I am still receiving the same message about there being a newer version. I tried installing an even newer version (the current Beta) and it also gave me the same message about a newer version already being installed. I can't uninstall it from the Prefs Pane because I never installed the PrefPane also.

Upvotes: 232

Views: 289930

Answers (16)

Shubham kumar
Shubham kumar

Reputation: 802

brew uninstall --force mysql@<version_no>

exmample

brew uninstall --force [email protected]

to get version check cd /usr/local/Cellar

Upvotes: 0

Srini
Srini

Reputation: 1636

This did the job for me:

brew uninstall mysql

Upvotes: 0

maulik trapasiya
maulik trapasiya

Reputation: 677

OS version: 10.14.6 MYSQL version: 8.0.14

Goto System preferences -> MYSQLenter image description here

Stop MySQL server

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One option will be shown here to uninstall MYSQL 8 after stopping Mysql server

Upvotes: 26

float13
float13

Reputation: 41

I also found

/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.oracle.oss.mysql.mysqld.plist

after using all of the other answers here to uninstall MySQL Community Server 8.0.15 from OS X 10.10.

Upvotes: 1

Markandayan P
Markandayan P

Reputation: 23

Remove MySQL completely

Open the Terminal

Use mysqldump to backup your databases

Check for MySQL processes with: 

ps -ax | grep mysql

Stop and kill any MySQL processes

Analyze MySQL on HomeBrew:

brew remove mysql
brew cleanup

Remove files:

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/My*

Unload previous MySQL Auto-Login:

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

Remove previous MySQL Configuration:

subl /etc/hostconfig` 
# Remove the line MYSQLCOM=-YES-

Remove previous MySQL Preferences:

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

Upvotes: -2

Victor
Victor

Reputation: 781

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

Upvotes: 21

rmc
rmc

Reputation: 1028

For me, I had installed MariaDB years ago using homebrew. Correct uninstall procedure was: brew uninstall mariadb.

Upvotes: 0

Dave
Dave

Reputation: 39

You should also check /var/db/receipts and remove all entries that contain com.mysql.*

Using sudo rm -rf /var/db/receipts/com.mysql.* didn't work for me. I had to go into var/db/receipts and delete each one seperately.

Upvotes: 3

bapu
bapu

Reputation: 701

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.

Upvotes: 38

PaulD
PaulD

Reputation: 107

sudo find / | grep -i mysql

This worked like a charm for me. Just went through the list and ensured that anything MySQL related was deleted.

Upvotes: -11

mhoeffner
mhoeffner

Reputation: 94

It might be overkill but your MySQL command history can also be wiped from:

~/.mysql_history

Upvotes: 4

rm-rf
rm-rf

Reputation: 1333

I also had entries in:

/Library/Receipts/InstallHistory.plist

that i had to delete.

Upvotes: 40

Dirk de Kok
Dirk de Kok

Reputation: 199

I also had a config file at /etc/my.cnf that I needed to delete on my Mac OS X Snow Leopard install

Upvotes: 4

Sophie Alpert
Sophie Alpert

Reputation: 143104

Try running also

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

Upvotes: 237

mblackwell8
mblackwell8

Reputation: 3065

Aside from the long list of remove commands in your question, which seems quite comprehensive in my recent experience of exactly this issue, I found mysql.sock running in /private/var and removed that. I used

find / -name mysql -print 2> /dev/null

...to find anything that looked like a mysql directory or file and removed most of what came up (aside from Perl/Python access modules). You may also need to check that the daemon is not still running using Activity Monitor (or at the command line using ps -A). I found that mysqld was still running even after deleting the files.

Upvotes: 12

Brian Lyttle
Brian Lyttle

Reputation: 14579

You need to identify where MySQL was installed to before attempting to delete it.

I always use the Hivelogic guide to installing under Mac OS X which builds MySQL from source. When setting up the build you can specify a directory under which to install MySQL with the --prefix parameter. You should make sure the directory does not exist and attempt to install from source.

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysql --with-extra-charsets=complex \
--enable-thread-safe-client --enable-local-infile --enable-shared \
--with-plugins=innobase

Upvotes: 3

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