Half-Trashing a MySQL Installation. Thread starter Iconoplast; ... The key was, in short, to kill the running process of the MySQL server and restart it with the --skip-grant-tables option.

Step 3: Install MySQL. The installation process is quite easy, but I’ll provide a screen-by-screen look at this process as well as of the configuration process. MySQL installation.

sudo mysql_secure_installation Upon running this command, you will be prompted for the MySQL admin password. Once you successfully enter the password, the process will begin.