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First of all, I don't know very much about Ubuntu. It's Ubuntu 16.04 Server (64 bits).

I needed to install a MySQL database, using apt-get install mariadb-server. It worked, it's been installed but it asked me no password or anything. Unable to set a password, I just uninstalled it using the apt-get remove.

Then I wanted to try using apt-get install mysql-server, giving me an error. Well, I searched the web for solutions, and I've used commands I don't even know what do they do. And now, I have this mess where I can't install packages.

It seems that both are already installed, but when I try to do something with them:

ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)

And I can't even install gedit to try and edit a file that's supposed to have a solution to this problem.

Argh... What the heck can I do? I'm very lost right now, and I'm afraid that if I can't solve this, I'll have to format and reinstall everything.

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Thanks for your help.

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Don't reinstall. If you don't have any valuable data in your databases, you can try this :

sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq mariadb-server
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