1

In my Ubuntu 10.10, following this tutorial, I don't face step 2. I mean, while installing the packets, I don't face anything related to configuration.

Then, when I run a command, such a

mysql -u root -p

, I get this error:

ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)

As I see in other treads,

ps aux | grep mysqld

gives me just this output:

1000 4508 0.0 0.0 5172 760 pts/0 S+ 19:53 0:00 grep --color=auto mysqld

As you suggested me:

aptitude search mysql | grep ^i Gives me:

i A libmysqlclient16 - MySQL database client library
i A libqt4-sql-mysql - Qt 4 MySQL database driver
i mysql-client-core-5.1 - MySQL database core client binaries
i A mysql-common - MySQL database common files, e.g. /etc/mys i mysql-server-core-5.1
- MySQL database server binaries

What is happening?? Thanks in advance

Blanca Hdez
  • 3,513
  • 19
  • 71
  • 93
  • 1
    This **doesn't** represent a vote to close, but I'd suggest asking this over at [the Ubuntu Stack Exchange site](http://askubuntu.com/), or maybe [the Unix/Linux Stack Exchange site](http://unix.stackexchange.com/) for more specific help, where the question is likely more on-topic than SO. – David Thomas Jan 16 '11 at 19:59
  • Yes, I already did it before asking here, but with no succes. Thanks – Blanca Hdez Jan 16 '11 at 20:16

1 Answers1

4

First check that mysql is installed:

aptitude search mysql | grep ^i

If it's not do: 

sudo aptitude install mysql-server

This will show the mysql packages that you have installed.

If it is installed, it seems that the sql deamon is not started try 

sudo /etc/init.d/mysql start
alampada
  • 2,329
  • 1
  • 23
  • 18