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Install MySQL on Ubuntu Linux

Install MySQL on Ubuntu Linux

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Install MySQL on Ubuntu Linux

- [Instructor] After installing Apache and PHP, the next step is to install MySQL. And as with the previous software packages you can do this on Linux from the command line. I'll type sudo for superuser do, then apt-get install mysql-server. I'll see a listing of the files that need to be downloaded and installed, and I'll confirm to continue with the installation. There are more files to be downloaded than there are with Apache and with PHP, so it might take a couple of minutes for everything to be downloaded and configured on your computer. But when this initial step is complete you will have a couple of other steps to go through before you're ready to work with MySQL on your development computer. When you come back to the terminal prompt you can then start the next step in the process. I'm going to run a utility called MySQL secure installation. I'll start with sudo, then mysql_secure_installation and then after a…

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