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So I installed MySQL using yum install mysql on an Amazon EC2 Micro instance using the Basic 64-bit Amazon Linux AMI 2010.11.1 Beta AMI. I try to connect to MySQL using the command mysql but I get the following error:

ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)

I can't understand why this is happening. I seem to be the same as this question here. What can I do?

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The server may not be installed, try

yum install mysql-server

it will start as part of the installation process. Use

chkconfig mysqld on

to have the server run after a reboot.

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Ha, didn't install the mysql-server part. Good catch, thanks a bunch. – Chiggins Feb 21 '11 at 1:33
No problem, easy mistake to make :) – Andy Feb 21 '11 at 12:44
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