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Hey everybody. I'm going through my system (Mac OS X 10.3.9, through the Terminal application) trying to get rid of instances of MySQL that I installed over each other. I was having trouble getting MySQL to work: it wasn't letting me set the password, then it wouldn't let me create new databases once I finally got it set up. I've tried everything and so now I'm wondering if maybe the redundant versions are conflicting with each other. So I'm going to erase all of them and reinstall. Problem is, I'm having difficulty deleting this one pesky link. It doesn't seem to go anywhere, but the shell won't let me kill it, even with sudo. Here's the code:

Code:

lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel   47  2 Mar 18:04 mysql -> mysql-standard-4.1.18-apple-darwin8.2.0-powerpc
drwxr-xr-x  19 root  wheel  646  8 Nov 09:35 mysql-max-4.1.15-apple-darwin7.9.0-powerpc
seans-Computer:/usr/local sean$ rm -r mysql
rm: mysql: Permission denied
seans-Computer:/usr/local sean$ sudo rm -r mysql -> mysql-standard-4.1.18-apple-darwin8.2.0-powerpc
-bash: mysql-standard-4.1.18-apple-darwin8.2.0-powerpc: Permission denied

Anybody know what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks!

no,but try getting os x tiger it might work then

To delete a file you need write permission to the directory that contains it. Do:
ls -ld .
to see if you do. Using -r in this case is really odd but it should be harmless. Try dropping the -r.