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Waqas
Asked: 2014-09-19 23:52:57 +0800 CST

Error installing mysql server on Ubuntu 14.04 [duplicate]

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I am getting error installing mysql on ubuntu desktop 14.04 ( 64-bit)

I used following command

sudo apt-get install mysql-server

It asked me for password (and verification) and ended on following errors

Setting up mysql-server-5.5 (5.5.38-0ubuntu0.14.04.1) ...
initctl: Unknown job: mysql

Any suggestions would be helpful

14.04

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Try this:

    sudo apt-get purge mysql-server
sudo apt-get purge mysql-common
sudo rm -rf /var/log/mysql
sudo rm -rf /var/log/mysql.*
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/mysql
sudo rm -rf /etc/mysql
sudo apt-get install mysql-server --fix-missing --fix-broken

    Credits to thefourtheye

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