[Techtalk] RESOLVED :) - could not start mysql, php under LAMP. TweetDeck also would not run.

[Leslie MacDougall]

Original Question:
I have LAMP installed, but cannot get either mysql or php to start.
I also installed TweetDeck and could not get it to run either. Apache is
running just fine.
I installed using command line, not gui, but a check on Synaptic Package
Manager says that these programs are definitely installed.

I got this:
An error seems to have occurred while installing the database. If it's of
any help,
this was the error encountered:
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
'/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)

My efforts caused dpkg to crash and I had to reinstall. I got mysql to the
point where I was added as a user, but when I tried to start mysql the next
morning, I got that socket error AGAIN - the same one that started all this
in the first place!!! mysql -u root didn't work (permission denied).

The command I needed was mysql -u root -p.

Sorry it took so long to get back to you all on this, I was actually having
another go at installing TweetDeck when my hard drive crashed.
TweetDeck loaded ok in Ubuntu 9.10. I installed TD and AdobeAIR in the same
download though, rather than separately as I did first try. ???

Thanks everyone for all your help.
Linuxchix is a great service - special thanks to those who work so hard to
provide this for us :D
Love Leslie.