If you get an error like below when trying to connect to your MySQL server from the terminal, you can solve the issue by following the steps below.

$ mysql -u root
mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)'
Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' exists!

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