title: Why does the installer for mysql not ask me to setup a password on Ubuntu 16?
body: <p>For some reason, when I try to install MariaDB or MySQL on Ubuntu 16 desktop using package management at a terminal, there is no part of the installation that asks for a password.  It just finishes with indications that all was successful.  Then I am unable to get into the database because I have no idea what the password is.  It is very strange.  If I did a fresh install and selected a LAMP stack it would ask me for the password when installing mysql.
      My solution seems to be to add MariaDB using something like Bitnami or Docker.</p>