How To Check mysql is installed in linux machine or not?

Question

In my case I am trying

mysql --version

so it is showing

mysql  Ver 15.1 Distrib 5.5.35-MariaDB, for Linux (x86_64) using readline 5.1

but when I am giving

service mysql status

It showing path is not available ,please help to find out mysql server is installed or not in particular linux machine.

Answer 1

You need to check existense of binaries:

• mysql ( which mysql ) if you need to check client existence
• mysqld ( which mysqld_safe or which mysqld ) if you need to check server existence

Answer 2

On debian it could be done using dpkg :

dpkg -s mysql-server

returns

Package: mysql-server
Status: install ok installed
[...]

or

dpkg-query: package 'mysql-server' is not installed and no information is available

same for mysql-client

Answer 3

Try this simple step if you are using Ubantu OS. Go to search>> Ubantu software center(type in search)>>Installed(click)>>Developer Tools(click)(then it will show that mysql software is installed or not)