Starting Neo4j failed: Address localhost:7474 is already in use, cannot bind to it on Mac OSX

Question

I\'m trying to install a neo4j server on my localhost (mac osx - El-capitan) and i\'m getting this error -

Starting Neo4j failed: Address localhost:

Answer 1

You don’t need to install anything. Just download the linux tar.gz package, uncompress it and use the terminal to run the command ‘./bin/neo4j console’ to run it in console mode. You can start it in background too but based on your question, it sounds like this is just a dev machine.