ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysql.sock' (2)

Question

I\'m getting this error

ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can\'t connect to local MySQL server through socket \'/var/run/mysqld/mysql.sock\' (2)

even though

Answer 1

You may be missing mysql-server. install it using

sudo apt-get install mysql-server