I was following a guide on how to setup LAMP stack on Ubuntu. When I was installing the MySQL server I kept on getting this error: https://www.pastery.net/kkyfjh/
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Hello @c1ab4dbdb008-4f27-a33d-a4750f
I assume you’ve followed this tutorial
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-linux-apache-mysql-php-lamp-stack-on-ubuntu-22-04
To install
MySQL
you can execute the following commandOnce completed you can run the secure installation script.
It seems like you’ve installed it but the service is unable to start. I’ll recommend you to check the error_log file and also check the journal for a more detailed error.
error_log
is/var/log/mysql/error.log
And to check the journal you can execute
Regards