Installing the MySQL command-line client

Most Linux distributions include the MariaDB client instead of the Oracle MySQL client. To install the MySQL command-line client on Amazon Linux 2023, run the following command:

sudo dnf install mariadb105

To install the MySQL command-line client on Amazon Linux 2, run the following command:

sudo yum install mariadb

To install the MySQL command-line client on most DEB-based Linux distributions, run the following command:

apt-get install mariadb-client

To check the version of your MySQL command-line client, run the following command:

mysql --version

To read the MySQL documentation for your current client version, run the following command:

man mysql