Missing /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock file

Question

I\'m trying to access mysql and when I run the mysql command, I get the following.

[root@ip-10-229-65-166 tpdatabase-1.8.0.28356]# mysql

ERR

Answer 1

mysql might have been packaged separately as client and server. Check your package repositories to make sure that the server has been installed. The mysql package might only be the client. Check if there's a package called mysql-server or something similar. Check the list of files installed by the mysql package to see if it actually installs the server.

If the files are not even there, it's not a permissions problem. Also, you're running as root.