Installing MariaDB on Mac OS X is similar to installing it on Linux (refer to the previous recipe), with one important difference: the MariaDB developers do not provide the installer; instead, it is provided by the brew project.
In order to install MariaDB on Mac OS X, we must first install Xcode from the Mac App Store. Once that is installed, we need to install and configure brew. The complete set of instructions for how to do this are on the brew website, http://brew.sh/, but the basic command is:
ruby -e \
"$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/go/install)"
After installing brew, we will run the following doctor command to make sure that everything is set up properly:
brew doctor
When the doctor command finds an issue, and it might find several, it will print out a suggested fix for each one. To ensure that brew is happy, we need to follow the instructions until the doctor command gives us the following message:
Your system is ready to brew.
Let's get started by following the ensuing steps:
Run the following commands in our terminal:
brew update brew install mariadb
If there are any dependencies, they will be installed first, and then brew will download the latest stable MariaDB source code tarball, compile it, and then install it.
Once the installation has finished, link the MariaDB startup
plistto theLaunchAgentsdirectory as follows, so that MariaDB will start automatically:ln -sfv /usr/local/opt/mariadb/*.plist \ ~/Library/LaunchAgents
To start MariaDB, use the following
launchctlcommand to load theplistfile:launchctl load \ ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.mariadb.plist
To stop MariaDB, unload the
plistfile:launchctl unload \ ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.mariadb.plist
The brew installer works like a Linux package manager. Many open source software packages can be installed with it, including MariaDB.
The brew installer does not set a password for the root user, so the first thing that we should do after getting MariaDB running on Mac OS X is to run the mysql_secure_installation script. For more information, refer to the Securing MariaDB with mysql_secure_installation recipe in Chapter 13, MariaDB Security.