i've got a really short memory - Rawi Rai

Tag: mysql

MySQL Access denied for user ‘root’@’localhost’

sudo apt-get remove --purge mysql-server mysql-client mysql-common
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo apt install mysql-server

sudo dpkg-reconfigure mysql-server-5.5

change the root password.

sudo apt-get purge mysql-server*

and after that, I did this:

sudo apt-get install mysql-server-5.6

Start:

sudo /etc/init.d/mysql start

Stop:

sudo /etc/init.d/mysql stop

Restart / reload configs:

sudo /etc/init.d/mysql restart

Check run status:

sudo /etc/init.d/mysql status