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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.

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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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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)

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