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Ok so I'm at the part where I have to download MySQL, but there's so many different options, I'm not sure which one I have to pick. There are options for package format downloads and TAR packages downloads with multiple options for Mac OS X (I'm running version 10.5.8)
I picked Mac OS X 10.5...