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Installing MySQL

Ubuntu:

 1. Check whether mysql is installed:
     dpkg --list | grep -i 'mysql'
 2. To uninstall a package: 
     apt-get --purge remove lighttpd

 3. If you would like to change the MySQL root password, in a terminal enter:
     sudo dpkg-reconfigure mysql-server-5.5

 
 Common MySQL Libraries:
     libmysqlclient16                MySQL database client library
     mysql-client-5.1                MySQL database client binaries
     mysql-client-core-5.1           MySQL database core client binaries
     mysql-common                    MySQL database common files (e.g. /etc/mysql/my.cnf)
     mysql-server                    MySQL database server (metapackage depending on the lat
     mysql-server-5.1                MySQL database server binaries
     mysql-server-core-5.1           MySQL database core server files
     python-mysqldb                  A Python interface to MySQL