MySQL is the popular relational database management system used for storing structured data in table formats. It is open source database server uses SQL (Structured Query Language) statements for to interact with. The MySQL is freely available under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

This tutorial will help you to install MySQL 8 on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Linux systems.

Prerequisites

You must have a running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS system with sudo privileged account access. Next, login to your system and open a terminal.

ssh ubuntu@remote.host 

Run below commands to upgrade the current packages to the latest version.

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade 

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