

Step 3: Verify the installation (optional)

However, the process may take some time depending on your internet speed. Type Y and then press Enter MySQL will then be installed on your system. The system may ask you for the password for sudo and also offer you a Y/n option to continue the installation. Please note that only an authorized user on Ubuntu can add, remove and configure software. Please run the following command as sudo to install MySQL from APT repositories. Run the following command as sudo to update your local repository index: $ sudo apt-get update Step 2: Install MySQL server with apt To install the latest available version of a software from the Internet repositories, your local repository index must match it. You can open the Ubuntu command line, the terminal, either from the application launcher search bar or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T. In this section, we describe how to install MySQL from the Ubuntu command line and configure security. We have run the commands and procedures mentioned in this article on an Ubuntu 20.04 LTS system MySQL installation and security configuration

This RDBMS is supported by Oracle and runs on almost all platforms such as Linux, UNIX and MS Windows. MySQL, which stands for My (co-founder Michael Widenius’ daughter name) Structured Query Language, is an open source relational database management system.
