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apt-get install mysql-server
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The following extra packages will be installed:
  libdbd-mysql-perl libmysqlclient12 mysql-client mysql-common
Suggested packages:
  mysql-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libdbd-mysql-perl libmysqlclient12 mysql-client mysql-common mysql-server
0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 18 not upgraded.
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Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package mysql-common.
(Reading database ... 27352 files and directories currently installed.)
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Selecting previously deselected package mysql-server.
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find: /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock: No such file or directory
Setting up mysql-common (4.0.24-10sarge2) ...
Setting up libmysqlclient12 (4.0.24-10sarge2) ...

Setting up libdbd-mysql-perl (2.9006-1) ...
Setting up mysql-client (4.0.24-10sarge2) ...
Setting up mysql-server (4.0.24-10sarge2) ...
Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld.

Starting MySQL database server: mysqld...failed.
        Please take a look at the syslog.
/usr/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysq
ld.sock' (2)'
Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock'
exists!