Mastering PHP 7

Installing MySQL

Assuming we are using the fresh Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) installation, the following steps outline how we can set up MySQL:

1. To install MySQL, we execute the following console commands:

sudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get -y install mysql-server

2. The installation process triggers a console GUI interface that asks us to enter a root user password:

3. The provided password needs to be repeated for confirmation purposes:  

4. Once the installation is done, we can execute the following mysql --version command to confirm if the MySQL ...