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Step 0:

Get Homebrew installed on your mac if you don't already have it

Step 1:

Install highlight. "brew install highlight". (This brings down Lua and Boost as well)

Step 2:

OSX How To: Uninstall native MySQL and install MariaDB via Homebrew

This is a short overview on how to completely remove any old mysql server installs in OSX and upgrade to MariaDB without conflicts. Things can get a bit weird when you have various old installs of MySQL server floating around, and utilizing homebrew to install and upgrade MariaDB as a drop in replacement for MySQL has worked well, especially if you're used to managing MySQL installs via yum in linux.

First: Backup Your Data!

Backup all of your current databases with mysqldump

This isn't a tutorial on backups, and there are many ways to do it. You should know how to backup your data anyway. For this example, we'll do a full backup of our InnoDB databases.

the horror!

The jist of starting and stoping apache:

$ sudo apachectl start
$ sudo apachectl stop
$ sudo apachectl restart

if you care about the HTTPD version

	# first:
	lsbom -f -l -s -pf /var/db/receipts/org.nodejs.pkg.bom \| while read f; do sudo rm /usr/local/${f}; done
	sudo rm -rf /usr/local/lib/node /usr/local/lib/node_modules /var/db/receipts/org.nodejs.*

	# To recap, the best way (I've found) to completely uninstall node + npm is to do the following:

	# go to /usr/local/lib and delete any node and node_modules
	cd /usr/local/lib
	sudo rm -rf node*