Installing MySQL server in linux command

(1) Config the old mysql

Inorder to check if mysql is already installed or not run this command

which mysql

If found it will show some directory name otherwise not found

In order to remove old mysql

yum remove mysql-server

yum remove mysql

(2) Now to install mysql run this command from the shell or a command line access point

yum install mysql-server

yum install mysql

yum install mysql-devel

Inorder to use with php

yum install php-mysql

(3) Sart mysql server

service mysqld start

If you didn't start the mysql server, you'll get the following error:

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

(4) By default mysql has the no passward. To change the password in command shell write the following commands

mysql

mysql> USE mysql;

mysql> UPDATE user SET Password=PASSWORD('new-password') WHERE user='root';

mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

That's all, if anything is missing let me know