Step 1 — Installing MySQL

• Update the package index

sudo apt update

• Install the MySQL server package

sudo apt install mysql-server

• Start MySQL server

sudo systemctl start mysql.service

• Check MySQL server status

sudo systemctl status mysql

• The status should look like this

● mysql.service - PerconaMySQL Community Server
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/mysql.service; enabled; vendor preset:> enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Tue 2024-09-172020-04-21 08:18:1912:56:48 +0530;UTC; 8h6min ago
    Process: 691 ExecStartPre=/usr/share/mysql/mysql-systemd-start pre (code=ex>
   Main PID: 81610382 (mysqld)
     Status: "Server is operational"
      Tasks: 5639 (limit: 18891)1137)
     Memory: 173.3M
        CPU: 5min 15.820s370.0M
     CGroup: /system.slice/mysql.service
             └─81610382 /usr/sbin/mysqld