# Error installing MySQL on my Mac

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/error-installing-mysql-on-my-mac/280485
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**Created:** [January 28, 2009, 6:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/error-installing-mysql-on-my-mac/280485 "2009-01-28T06:32:03Z")
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#### Post date: [January 28, 2009, 6:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/error-installing-mysql-on-my-mac/280485/1 "2009-01-28T06:32:03Z")

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I have been trying to install a little development environment on my laptop using MacPorts and everything works perfect except for MySQL 5. It installs and says it works but anytime I try to send it or anything related to it a command I get this error “Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/opt/local/var/run/mysql5/mysqld.sock’”.

Online I have read that it means the MySQL is not running, which would make sense because I think I am sending it the command to start the server after having it create the base databases it needs. I can run the “/opt/local/lib/mysql5/bin/mysql\_install\_db” no problem, but when I try to do the next step that MySQL tells me or any I find online it throws that error.

Any help or pointers would be amazing, thank you!