I have been working on a project for some time. This tutorial is part of that project. I will talk about the project in another post. Let's get back to the topic. MySql is a general purpose free RDBMS. This is a very popular database in the opensource world. I am using Ubuntu 16.04 for this tutorial. You can check your OS by using below command. lsb_release -a The stable MySql package is available under Ubuntu repository. Let's update the OS before we install MySql package. sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get dist-upgrade All the above commands will update the OS. Once that is done you might need to restart the system, based on the what packages you are installing. If you are prompt to restart, then reboot your system. In the next step, we will install MySql package using the below command. sudo apt-get install mysql-server During the installation, you will be prompt to set root password. Please remember the password. You wi...