In my situation, I already had the mysqld running. To find this I ran:







 

If the mysql daemon is running then you must kill it. The best way to do this is:







 

Next you will need to remove mysql. If you installed mysql-source you can go to the directory you installed from and issue:







 

Then MySQL should install great.

 

If this didn't fix your problem there are some other options. Check out:

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