Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)

Question

I am getting the following error when I try to connect to mysql:

Can\'t connect to local MySQL server through socket \'/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock\' (2)<

Answer 1

MariaDB, a community developed fork of MySQL, has become the default implementation of MySQL in many distributions.

So first you should start,

$ sudo systemctl start mariadb

If this fails rather try,

$ sudo systemctl start mysqld

Then to start mysql,

$ mysql -u root -p

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As of today, in Fedora the package is named mariadb And in Ubuntu it is called mariadb-server.

So you may have to install it if its not already installed in your system.