2012-01-17T21:54:19-08:00 http://davedash.com/ Dave Dash dd+atom1@davedash.com 2009-09-02T00:00:00-07:00 http://davedash.com/2009/09/02/snow-leopard-for-macports-and-mysql-users <p>I use mysql and macports on OSX and both were broken when I upgraded to Snow Leopard.</p> <p>Mysql was a quick fix:</p> <pre><code>ln -s /usr/local/mysql-5.1.35-osx10.5-x86 /usr/local/mysql </code></pre> <p>(you're installed version might be different). It turns out a symlink was removed during the Snow Leopard upgrade.</p> <p>As for MacPorts, I had to install Xcode from the Snow Leopard CD, install the Snow Leopard version of MacPorts and then follow <a href="http://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration">this migration guide</a>.</p> 2008-08-10T00:00:00-07:00 http://davedash.com/2008/08/10/postgresql-and-python-in-osx <p>I want to start dabbling with postgreSQL on OS X. After several SVN checkouts, binary packages, etc, I've realize the easiest path to success is just installing from fink unstable.</p> <p>Running:</p> <pre><code>fink install psycopg2-py2.5 </code></pre> <p>will get you everything you need, <code>python</code>, the <code>pyscopg2</code> driver and even <code>postgresql</code>.</p> <p>Unfortunately I had MacPython binary and a postgres binary which I couldn't easily install (and if anybody knows how to uninstall at least the former, I'm all ears). I decided to just merge the site-packages for both the fink installed python2.5 and the MacPython:</p> <pre><code>$ rm -rf /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ $ ln -s /sw/lib/python2.5/site-packages /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/ </code></pre> <p>Now if I installed more python packages via fink they will work in MacPython.</p>