I got Tracks working under Tiger by trial and error starting with a suggestion from Jan who found a fix here. From this I stumbled on for an hour or so on my iMac untill near the very end I found that the tracks-page itself now has a Tiger-section. So, let’s try to do it all over again from fresh on my regular machine (a little iBook).
Start with this page and read it all the way to the comments. There is a comment by Jamie on installing Rails and MySQL on a fresh Tiger which looks like the thing I want followed immediately by another post by Jose Marinez on Installing Ruby on Rails on Tiger which I decided to follow by the letter (with one noticeable exception!). So first I downloaded the Rails installer on Tiger. Next, an install of the Standard version of MySQL. I used version 4.0 for OS X 10.3 !!!! NOT 4.1 !!!!. I installed MySQL and the StartUpItem. Next, I opened Terminal and typed the following commands
- cd
/usr/local/mysql
- sudo chown -R mysql data/
- sudo echo
- sudo ./bin/mysqldsafe &
and verified it by performing a simple test
/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql test
Next, I secured everything by having a root-password
/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqladmin -u root password *
Then I remembered that I’d better not have to type the whole path so I did a
echo ‘export PATH=/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH’ >> ~/.bashprofile
Also, I want to admin MySQL via phpmyadmin so I installed it. Then I enabled my webserver to use PHP using this post though I did use vi rather than pico! Next, i did a check whether everything worked fine by typing in safari
http://localhost/~lieven/phpmyadmin/index.php
Followed by a
sudo gem install mysql – –with-mysql-dir=/usr/local/mysql
Now, it is time to get the Tracks-package and to follow these instructions And, it works! Here is the proof :
mac, OSX, Tiger, tracks
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Posted in iMath
Written on Mon, 13 June 2005 at 9:17 am
Tags: mac, OSX, Tiger, tracks
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