Installing Percona/MySQL unattended on Ubuntu

Question

I can install MYSQL on Ubuntu without prompts with the code below:

dbpass=\"mydbpassword\"
export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
echo mysql-server-5.1 mysql-         


        

Answer 1

I actually found that the answer here install mysql on ubuntu without password prompt that suggested

export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -q -y install mysql-server

Worked and left me with a root user with no password, which is what I wanted.