aptitude install mysql-server mysql-client
 
安装过程中，要输入MySQL的root用户密码
 
安装完毕可以用service mysql status 查看运行状态
 
 * /usr/bin/mysqladmin  Ver 8.41 Distrib 5.0.51a, for debian-linux-gnu on i486
Copyright (C) 2000-2006 MySQL AB
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software,
and you are welcome to modify and redistribute it under the GPL license
Server version          5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.4
Protocol version        10
Connection              Localhost via UNIX socket
UNIX socket             /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
Uptime:                 5 min 49 sec
Threads: 1  Questions: 174  Slow queries: 0  Opens: 147  Flush tables: 2  Open tables: 17  Queries per second avg: 0.499