Tested on 10.7 (Lion) and 10.6 (Snow Leopard). Remove all startup items, receipts and the MySQL installation directory: sudo rm -rf /Library/StartupItems/MySQL* sudo rm -rf /Library/PreferencePanes/MySQL* sudo rm -rf /Library/Receipts/mysql-* sudo rm -rf /var/db/receipts/com.mysql.* sudo rm /usr/local/mysql sudo rm -rf /usr/local/mysql-* Remove this in `/etc/hostconfig` MYSQLCOM=-NO- Done.