Mysql error - Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket mysqld.sock

i get error like this : Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) You can fixing by : sudo apt-get install mysql-server =================================== update 15 september2019 if still not worked, you need to kill mysql process and restart the mysql ps -A|grep mysql sudo pkill mysql ps -A|grep mysqld sudo pkill mysqld sudo service mysql restart