Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock'
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.
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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.
For Debian, Manjaro, Arch-Linux (those distributions which doesn’t have service)
sudo systemctl enable mysql
You can use start instead of enable.
Note : Some distributions don't have mysql. They have mysqld (Arch-based Linux maybe).
You can use mysql-server following way also.
mysql -u root -p
If there's no password than, you can remove -p(you can leave password field empty also). root is username.
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