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

I had the problem.

This process worked for me:

Ensure that during remove process you choose No to deleting database.

sudo apt-get remove --purge mysql*

sudo apt-get autoremove

sudo apt-get autoclean

sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client