Installing MySQL server in linux command

(1) Config the old mysql

 Inorder to check if mysql is already installed or not run this command 
which mysql 
If found it will show some directory name otherwise not found

In order to remove old mysql 
yum remove mysql-server 
yum remove mysql

(2) Now to install mysql run this command from the shell or a command line access point 
yum install mysql-server 
yum install mysql 
yum install mysql-devel

Inorder to use with php 
yum install php-mysql

(3) Sart mysql server

service mysqld start

If you didn't start the mysql server, you'll get the following error:

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

(4) By default mysql has the no passward. To change the password in command shell write the following commands 
mysql 
mysql> USE mysql; 
mysql> UPDATE user SET Password=PASSWORD('new-password') WHERE user='root'; 
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

That's all, if anything is missing let me know