How To Install mysql-server on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mysql-server on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is mysql-server
mysql-server is:
This is an empty package that depends on the current “best” version of mysql-server (currently mysql-server-8.0), as determined by the MySQL maintainers. Install this package if in doubt about which MySQL version you need. That will install the version recommended by the package maintainers.
MySQL is a fast, stable and true multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server. SQL (Structured Query Language) is the most popular database query language in the world. The main goals of MySQL are speed, robustness and ease of use. Task: lamp-server
Package: mysql-server Architecture: all Version: 8.0.19-0ubuntu5 Priority: optional Section: database Source: mysql-8.0 Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian MySQL Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 107 Depends: mysql-server-8.0 Filename: pool/main/m/mysql-8.0/mysql-server_8.0.19-0ubuntu5_all.deb Size: 9544 MD5sum: fdae1f56d2407d8d1cdb9d71e30a12ce SHA1: 881939d6b18cb4e0042e81a31038a8675813ae0c SHA256: 06133de1f6f3fedb6188b06acee16ed4bf2276939d71b888fae5f5608fcf511a Homepage: http://dev.mysql.com/ Description-en: MySQL database server (metapackage depending on the latest version) This is an empty package that depends on the current “best” version of mysql-server (currently mysql-server-8.0), as determined by the MySQL maintainers. Install this package if in doubt about which MySQL version you need. That will install the version recommended by the package maintainers.
MySQL is a fast, stable and true multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server. SQL (Structured Query Language) is the most popular database query language in the world. The main goals of MySQL are speed, robustness and ease of use. Task: lamp-server
There are three methods to install mysql-server on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install mysql-server Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mysql-server using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mysql-server
Install mysql-server Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mysql-server using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mysql-server
Install mysql-server Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install mysql-server using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mysql-server
How To Uninstall mysql-server on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the mysql-server package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mysql-server
Uninstall mysql-server And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mysql-server and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mysql-server
Remove mysql-server Configurations and Data
To remove mysql-server configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mysql-server
Remove mysql-server configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mysql-server configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mysql-server
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mysql-server package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
