Hi I have installed several ghost instances in the past but I never ran into this issue before. All seems to go well except that it fails at “Setting up “ghost” mysql user”. I tried a few things suggested by users in recent posts about Mysql issues, but for the mysql -u root -p or sudo mysql I ha…

These are the steps needed for Ubuntu 22.04. Note that you need to set a password. sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade --yes sudo apt install mysql-server --yes sudo systemctl start mysql.service sudo mysql ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY '<password>'; QUIT;…

Hi, Thanks for replying. :) I did try that from another thread, but when I do sudo mysql, I have this message Access denied for user ‘root’@‘localhost’ (using password: YES) The root account has a password set.

You need to use sudo mysql -u root -p with the password set in the earlier instruction.

Hi, After some more tries, it finally works. I honestly do not know what was the issue. Thanks @mjw for your help. :slight_smile:

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