LAMP Stack tutorial fails at MySQL install on Ubuntu 14.04

Hi,

I’ve been following this tutorial to install the LAMP stack on an Ubuntu 14.04 droplet:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-linux-apache-mysql-php-lamp-stack-on-ubuntu-14-04

Apache installs and I can see “it works” on my public IP.

However, when I get to the MySQL installation I get the following log:

https://gist.github.com/edsilv/cd249a1788c8baf533002c16b6ad6a3d

And after running sudo mysql_install db I get:

Neither host 'srbska' nor 'localhost' could be looked up with /usr/bin/resolveip Please configure the 'hostname' command to return a correct hostname.

Is this the error in the log I should be concerned with?

adduser: '/usr/bin/chfn -f MySQL Server mysql' returned error code 1. Exiting. dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/mysql-server-5.5_5.5.49-0ubuntu0.14.04.1_amd64.deb (--unpack): subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1

In the interests of staying consistent with your tutorial, I didn’t want to try any answers I find on the web for that error in case I just make it worse… :-)

If I run service mysql start I get mysql: unrecognized service

The droplet was created from a snapshot I’d taken from another account after following the basic setup procedures to enable SSH and a non-root sudo user.