Steps to install mysql on linux

How to install mysql on linux???

How to check whether MySQL is running on your server or not????

Just 5 steps to install and check!! 

Installing MySQL: 

If you have internet then install it through apt-get or yum!!!!
Use apt-get or yum to install the MySQL from internet!
apt-get -f install mysql*

OR

yum install mysql*

If you don't have internet then get the rpm or deb files and install !!
If you have RPM files!
rpm -ivh MySQL-server-community-5.1.25-0.rhel5.i386.rpm MySQL-client-community-5.1.25-0.rhel5.i386.rpm

If you have DEB files!
dpkg -i MySQL-server-community-5.1.25-0.rhel5.i386.deb MySQL-client-community-5.1.25-0.rhel5.i386.deb

Setting the ROOT Password!!

/usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'MySecure$Password'

Take Precautions to offer a secured DB platform!

The best option is to run the mysql_secure_installation script that will take care of all the typical security related items on the MySQL as shown below. On a high level this does the following items:

1) Change the root password

2) Remove the anonymous user

3) Disallow root login from remote machines

4) Remove the default sample test database

so 

/usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation <--/

Verify and log-into your MySQL!!

For verification use MySQL to show his version details using

mysql -V
Output: mysql  Ver 14.15 Distrib 5.1.28-rc, for varra-linux-gnu (i686) using readline 5.1

So looks fine !! then try to loginto your MySQL

mysql -u root -h localhost -p

DONE!!!!!!! Simple!!?? ;)