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

I had the same problem when i installed xampp on my system. The mysql server looks for /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock but the mysql.sock file was in xampp folder so i used

 find / -name '*.sock'

to find the mysql.sock file and then used

ln -s <the file location> /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

to get a link for the *.sock file then tried mysql and it ran without error. Hope this could solve yours.

Remember to create the directory if it does not exists.

是因为采用XAMPP的方式安装mysql，找不到mysqld.sock文件，创建软连接到此处即可。

像我的机器是/opt/lampp/var/mysql/mysql.sock

如果遇到用户名密码错误，是因为mysql默认的一个localhost的空用户名被匹配到了，删除即可