Getting cthulhu-manip running on Mac OS X means getting the DBD::MySQL perl modules installed. Which means, sadly, installing MySQL. The good news is it’s actually easy. Just go to dev.mysql.com and download the Mac OS X Intel 64 bit (x86_64) version, and untar the file as /usr/local/mysql:

`Getting cthulhu-manip running on Mac OS X means getting the DBD::MySQL perl modules installed. Which means, sadly, installing MySQL. The good news is it's actually easy. Just go to [dev.mysql.com][1] and download the Mac OS X Intel 64 bit (x86_64) version, and untar the file as/usr/local/mysql`:

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Then, go build DBD::mysql with CPAN:

``Getting cthulhu-manip running on Mac OS X means getting the DBD::MySQL perl modules installed. Which means, sadly, installing MySQL. The good news is it's actually easy. Just go to [dev.mysql.com][1] and download the Mac OS X Intel 64 bit (x86_64) version, and untar the file as/usr/local/mysql`:

`Getting cthulhu-manip running on Mac OS X means getting the DBD::MySQL perl modules installed. Which means, sadly, installing MySQL. The good news is it's actually easy. Just go to [dev.mysql.com][1] and download the Mac OS X Intel 64 bit (x86_64) version, and untar the file as/usr/local/mysql`:

``

Then, go build DBD::mysql with CPAN:

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It will print a bunch of crap on the screen as it installs, and then you’re all done, and you can use DBD::mysql, which is needed for my auto-blocking scripts to work.