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Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock'

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I have installed mysql-server on Ubuntu 20.04 then I tried to sign into mysql-server using sudo mysql -u root but I have got

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

I don't know what does that mean. I am using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) Ubuntu 20.04.

ubuntu mysql-server

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Simply, mysql-server isn't running, you will have to run it first using:

sudo service mysql start

then try to sign into mysql-server using:

sudo mysql

then you are good to go.

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`mysql` shouldn't need to be run as root (3 comments)