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Thank you very much, Samboll!
So why would anyone use such cryptic language if it can also be scrpited in an intellible way? Well, there will be a reason for that…

Hello again,
mySQL is indicated as “running” in the SystemPreferences.
Username, password and database name are spelled correctly within the wp-config-file.
I followed your advise and I got this:

mysql> SHOW GRANTS FOR ‘root’@’localhost’;
+—————————————————————————————————————————————-+
| Grants for root@localhost |
+—————————————————————————————————————————————-+
| GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO ‘root’@’localhost’ IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD ‘*21E0F9364752C7131FEE054F20B28DA4BDEB6709’ WITH GRANT OPTION |
+—————————————————————————————————————————————-+
1 row in set (0.01 sec)

mysql>

Thanks, it worked! But I still didn’t get it to install, WP says:

Error establishing a database connection

This either means that the username and password information in your wp-config.php file is incorrect or we can’t contact the database server at localhost. This could mean your host’s database server is down.

* Are you sure you have the correct username and password?
* Are you sure that you have typed the correct hostname?
* Are you sure that the database server is running?

I checked username and password, The only thing I’m not sure of is no.3, how do I know if the database server is running? I’m trying to install it on a localhost on my imac PowerPC G5…