The web (which means downloading packages on demand) installer of MySQL on Windows in broken. (mysql-installer-web-community-5.7.18.1.msi) See https://www.reddit.com/r/mysql/comments/35uh7n/installation_problems/ The solution is to download the whole package. (mysql-installer-community-5.7.18.1.msi) (Why? Just because…) World of Open Source, 2017. The full installer won’t let me to pick “developer package”, I have to click through the installer UI, which is a beast, […]