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
